The theme for this day is going with the hot horse. There are three runners on today’s card who come here sharp and seem well positioned to continue their good form, giving you some options for key horses in your in-race and multirace wagers.
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DRF handicapper Matt Bernier gives his analysis and top plays for Saturday's program at Santa Anita.
Some big fields early on the card give an early pick three (races 2-4) some appeal, particularly because race 5, the Grade 1 Vanity, will apparently be reduced to a field a four.
DRF handicapper Mike Watchmaker provides his analysis and best plays on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
Homebred champion American Pharoah – who had delivered his own dose of heartbreak last fall when injury forced him to miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile – ended the Zayat family’s streak of frustration in America’s most famed race, surging clear late to capture the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby on May 2 at Churchill Downs.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 5/10 card at Balmoral Park.
Every breeder’s ultimate goal is to breed a classic winner. There are, however, as many routes to that goal as there are classic winners.
Highland Reel, trained by Aidan O’Brien, is the tepid antepost favorite for Sunday's one-mile French 2000 Guineas at Longchamp, which will be contested on good-to-soft going, but O’Brien hasn’t won a French 2000 Guineas since 2007, and Highland Reel, unraced since winning a Group 2 last July at Goodwood, probably has no definitive edge on several other lightly raced colts in the Guineas.
Albiano, an undefeated Kentucky-bred filly who went through the sales ring at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Florida March sale of 2-year-olds in training, is one of two fillies in Sunday’s $1,600,400 NHK Mile for 3-year-olds at Tokyo Racecourse.
