ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Even the losers get lucky sometimes, and the longtime maiden Bee Me may have found a field that he can beat in Friday’s sixth race at Woodbine, a 6 1/2-furlong Tapeta sprint for Ontario-sired and $40,000 maidens.
Bee Me failed to crack the top two in eight starts last year at 3 while ending up third three times. The son of Bee Jersey has been much improved this year, during which he’s filled out the exacta behind a next-out winner thrice.
By all measures, Frank Lucarelli has had a successful 2025 meet at Emerald Downs. Heading into closing weekend, he ranked fourth among local trainers in wins with 24 and second in earnings with $440,758.
But when asked to assess his barn’s performance this meet, Lucarelli pointed out a few ways in which things could have broken more to his favor.
One of the most promising and frustrating dominoes on the U.S. sports betting board that's yet to fall, Minnesota has repeatedly failed to legalize sports wagering despite broad constituent support.
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In 2019, Minnesota came close to becoming one of the first states to legalize sports betting when a bill that had cleared the Senate died in the House. Six years later, after several repeated attempts, another piece of legislation garnered the support of the state's gaming tribes, pro sports franchises, horse racetracks, and pull-tab operators.
Surely, this effort could not fail. Naturally, it did – again.
So it goes with one of the most promising and frustrating dominoes on the U.S. sports wagering board that's yet to fall. After 2025's disappointment, it's anyone's guess as to what can get this form of gambling across the goal line in Minnesota.
May, 2019
Legislation that would have authorized tribal casinos and horse racetracks to offer sports wagering passes the Senate but fails to advance in the House.
May 12, 2022
Three years later, it's the House's turn to pass its own version of sports betting legislation, only to see the effort stall out in the Senate.
February 13, 2024
Gov. Tim Waltz makes it clear that he would sign sports betting into law if a successful bill ever finds its way to his desk.
February 13, 2025
Despite receiving support from Indian tribes, pro sports franchises, horse racetracks, and pull-tab operators, a mobile sports wagering bill that would provide benefits to them all – as well as a new revenue source for the state – fails to emerge from a Senate committee.
Despite the support of a broad spectrum of constituent groups and repeated legislative efforts to authorize sports wagering over the past several years, it is not legal in Minnesota.
Since sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, nobody can bet on sports within state lines.
Legislation seeking to authorize sports betting has called for the creation of a state sports wagering committee to oversee sports betting in Minnesota.
Pull tabs, horse betting, and tribal casino gaming are legal in Minnesota, but sports betting isn't.
You can't legally bet on sports in Minnesota, unfortunately.
Daily fantasy sports contests exist in a legal gray area in Minnesota, but several major DFS operators are live in the state.
Yes, it is legal to bet on horses in Minnesota in a variety of ways. The state is home to one Thoroughbred racetrack (Canterbury Park) and one harness racing track (Running Aces) where live and simulcast betting are available, and Minnesotans can legally bet online through account-wagering sites and apps like TwinSpires and FanDuel Racing.
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Daily Racing Form Southern California handicapper Brad Free provides his selections, analysis and suggested wagers for Saturday, Sept. 6 at Del Mar.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Scottish Lassie, the 15 1/2-length winner of the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks, worked six furlongs in 1:13.86 Monday morning over the Oklahoma training track in preparation for a start in the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion Stakes on Sept. 20 at Parx.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It’s Our Time, the impressive 2-year-old son of Not This Time who won his career debut by 17 3/4 lengths on Aug. 16, will make his next start in the Grade 1, $400,000 Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct on Oct. 4, trainer Tom Amoss said Sunday.
The Champagne is run as a one-turn mile and Amoss said he likes that as a gradual stretch-out to ultimately trying two turns, perhaps in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on Oct. 31.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Kenny McPeek sent out 2-year-old winners for three consecutive days in Saratoga and is now pointing that trio to stakes at Aqueduct this fall.
On Thursday, McPeek sent out the filly Rina’s Revenge to a 4 3/4-length victory going six furlongs. A daughter of Yaupon, Rina’s Revenge earned a 59 Beyer Speed Figure.
On Friday, McPeek won a 2-year-old maiden race with Stickupwithoutagun, a son of McKinzie who had finished sixth in a turf race here just two weeks earlier.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year who won a thrilling renewal of the Grade 1 Personal Ensign by a nose on Aug. 23, will most likely make her next start in the Grade 1 Spinster on Oct. 5 at Keeneland, trainer Kenny McPeek said Sunday.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jockey Edgard Zayas was originally scheduled to spend this past weekend at Kentucky Downs. But a chain of events that began with John Velazquez taking himself off Be Your Best in the Flower Bowl here Saturday to ride Fierceness in the Pacific Classic instead led Zayas to Saratoga, where he won four races over a two-day span.
He also ended up with the mount on White Abarrio in the tumultuous Jockey Club Gold Cup, a race in which Irad Ortiz Jr. was unseated from Mindframe after a chain reaction of bumping after the start of the race.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though he won two Grade 1 stakes with his older dirt males over the weekend, trainer Todd Pletcher’s biggest victory may be the fact Mindframe was unharmed during a scary incident in the opening stages of Sunday’s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga.
Mindframe ran loose for about a mile of the Jockey Gold Cup after he lost rider Irad Ortiz Jr. as a result of a chain of reaction of crowding and bumping that ultimately forced Ortiz to hit the ground. Fortunately, Ortiz escaped serious injury.
