DRF Plus handicapping reports for Friday, May 1
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Friday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
DRF StaffApr 30, 2015
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Friday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Saturday 5/2 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Saturday 5/2 card at Balmoral Park.
Hall of Fame jockey Alex Solis has been appointed to the California Horse Racing Board, according a statement released Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Let's take a look at Friday's pick four sequence at Churchill Downs concluding with the Grade 1, $1 million Kentucky Oaks.
It was another perfect morning for training Thursday at Churchill Downs, where all the Derby activity took place after the renovation break. There were really no surprises during Thursday’s session, with all the Derby lookers continuing to look good again.
In recent seasons the American Turf, a 3-year-old grass stakes on Kentucky Derby Weekend, has come up short and soft. Not this time. Fourteen horses were entered in the Grade 2, $250,000 American Turf, and like the Derby itself, there’s sufficient talent here to ensure overlaid odds on horses that can win.
Gleneagles, the winner of three group stakes in Ireland last summer, can give trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-equaling seventh career win in Saturday’s Group 1 English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.
Catch a Flight begins his spring campaign in Saturday’s $100,000 Precisionist Stakes at Santa Anita. There is hope the Precisionist will lead to a start in the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 27.
A race before international invader Mubtaahij runs in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby for trainer Mike de Kock, Derby Day horseplayers will see a de Kock preview when Umgiyo races for him in the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at 1 1/8 miles on the Churchill Downs turf.