Trio of recent maiden winners step up in Lexington Stakes
Three of the main contenders are fresh off maiden victories, which seems to say plenty about the 34th running of the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes on Saturday.
Marty McGeeApr 09, 2015
Three of the main contenders are fresh off maiden victories, which seems to say plenty about the 34th running of the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes on Saturday.
Download positive ROI trainer statistics for Thursday's cards at Aqueduct, Charles Town, Evangeline Downs, Golden Gate, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Pimlico, and Santa Anita. The report features top trainer angles, top trainer/jockey combinations, and profitable betting angles based on a trainer's record in similar situations.
Mary Rampellini's horses to watch at Oaklawn Park for the week of April 9.
Woodbine’s 60th season commences Saturday with the final year of racing on a Polytrack main track, which will be replaced in December by another synthetic surface, Tapeta.
The Horseplayers Association of North America, a coalition of racing fans, has named Kentucky Downs in Franklin the top racetrack in the U.S., displacing Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., which had held the association’s top spot since it launched the rankings seven years ago.
Download a list of horses exiting races where two or more of the competitors have come back to win their next starts. Thursday's report features races from Aqueduct, Charles Town, Evangeline Downs, Golden Gate, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Pimlico, and Santa Anita.
The West Virginia Racing Commission has granted a request by Charles Town to drop 27 racing days from its 2015 schedule in an attempt to keep purses at their current levels.
An unfashionable Ohio-bred 1991 son of Flyer Lauxmont, he was pretty much a failure at age 2, but he went on to win 83 of his next 293 starts from ages 3 to 12. At 11, he took his career mark of 1:56 on the half mile track at Northfield Park and finished his career with over $617,000 in earnings. But if you lived outside of Ohio, you probably don’t know the name Berlin Flyer, who passed away at age 24 on March 14.
Spring Included employed different tactics Wednesday in the $100,000 Carousel at Oaklawn Park, but the results were the same as she won her second straight stakes race in the six-furlong feature for fillies and mares. Spring Included, who won last month’s $100,000 Spring Fever on the front end, was content to track the pace in the Carousel.
The trainer-jockey combination of David Jacobson and Cornelio Velasquez was the key to unlocking Wednesday’s pick six at Aqueduct as the duo won four consecutive races in the sequence.