DeVivo: Pick three play for Del Mar for Friday, Aug. 7
DRF handicapper Joe DeVivo provides a pick three play for Friday's program at Del Mar.
Joe DeVivoAug 07, 2015
DRF handicapper Joe DeVivo provides a pick three play for Friday's program at Del Mar.
Remington Park in Oklahoma City announced that all overnight purses will be increased 10 percent for the meet that opens next Friday. The 67-date season runs through Dec. 13.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, continues to improve from a cannon-bone bruise that ended his current season, trainer Art Sherman said this week.
Dancing Wind (#7, ML 8-1) makes her return in Friday’s fourth race at Gulfstream Park, a 7 1/2-furlong maiden claimer on turf. It will be her first start since a third-place finish by a half-length in a maiden race May 25 at Gulfstream Park. The second- and fourth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
DRF handicapper Joe DeVivo provides a pick three play on Saturday's program at Saratoga.
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Hambletonian Day is special for many reasons, but from a handicapping perspective, especially in 2015, it is unmatched in Harness Racing. Five guaranteed multi-race wagers, a $231K mandatory payout carryover and large pools form what will probably be the best card of the year.
History will be made at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday August 8. Regardless of whether filly sensation Mission Brief can become just the 14th horse of the female persuasion in 90 years to capture the prestigious Hambletonian, we will see something special.
Foiled Again, the seemingly ageless harness racing legend, will take the track once again Saturday afternoon for the United States Pacing Championship at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ. Harness racing’s richest horse will start from post nine looking to add the winner’s share of the $215,400 purse to the $7 million that he has already earned for his owners.
The Massachusetts Racing Commission on Thursday approved three live race dates at Suffolk Downs in September and October of this year, settling an issue, at least momentarily, that has divided horsemen in the state.