Jamie Ness entered the 2025 Delaware Park meet with clear intentions to win his 13th training title at the track since 2011. He should have set a loftier goal.
In the first 10 weeks of the meet, Ness has earned 39 victories in 93 starts. Entering more horses than he ever has at this point in a Delaware meet, his 42 percent win rate is also the highest of his career at the track. His previous best performance through July 23 was in 2016, when he won 21 races in 57 starts.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Two fillies from opposite sides of the country and with opposite styles of running share the same objective Friday at Del Mar – win the $150,000 Fleet Treat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies bred in California.
They will not get in each other’s way. Om N Joy is a West Coast late-runner shortening to seven furlongs after a come-from-behind win in a stakes route at Santa Anita. Drink This Cup is an East Coast front-runner stretching out after she wired a fast allowance sprint at Delaware Park.
Amid the rise of prediction platforms such as Kalsi, Polymarket looks ready to re-enter the American marketplace.
Polymarket was banned from operating in the US in 2022 following a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The platform, which refers to itself as the “world’s largest prediction market,” revealed this week that it acquired derivatives exchange QCX and clearinghouse QC Clearing LLC (known collectively as QCEX) for $112 million.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – There is rain in the forecast for Friday and the possibility of Woodbine’s eighth race being switched to the Tapeta would suit Highly Potent just fine. Scheduled for about 1 1/8 miles in lane 3 on the main course, the maiden special carries a base purse of $74,300 and kicks off the late double on the expanded nine-race program.
Colorado gaming regulators have fined DraftKings $90,000 for accepting wagers in prohibited markets, including bets on the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.
DraftKings accepted at least 100 bets on the Tyson-Paul bout last year despite being prohibited from doing so, regulators said.
They also said DraftKings allowed customers to place college player prop bets in March 2025, even though Colorado law prohibits those types of bets.
The NBA cleared Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier of wrongdoing in an illegal sports betting investigation – but the federal government has not.
As the Eastern District of New York continues its probe into the 31-year-old, ESPN’s David Purdum reported that a professional bettor placed 30 bets in 46 minutes before a 2023 game in which Rozier participated. The bets all won and paid out $13,017.70.
At least six sportsbooks in multiple states reported suspicious betting activity pertaining to Rozier’s player prop lines.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Derek Ryan said Book’em Danno exited his popular and impressive 2 1/2-length victory over Mullikin in Saturday’s Grade 2 Vanderbilt in good order but remained noncommittal about what the future might hold for arguably the leader of the sprint division at the midway point of the season.
Book’em Danno earned a career- and division-best 111 Beyer Speed Figure for his effort in the Vanderbilt while keeping his record unblemished in four starts at six furlongs.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though Chad Brown is bringing a two-time Grade 1 winner into Thursday’s restricted Curlin Stakes at Saratoga, it is his other, far-less accomplished runner that is likely to garner most of the wagering attention.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – White Abarrio turned in arguably his most impressive work since his disappointing fourth-place finish in the Met Mile six weeks earlier when breezing four furlongs in 48.42 seconds with regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Monday. White Abarrio, who galloped out six furlongs in a strong 1:13.16, is being pointed to the Grade 1 Whitney on Aug. 2.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After winning his first Churchill Downs training title this spring, Joe Sharp has carried his momentum into the opening two weeks of the Saratoga meet, winning with five of his first 12 starters, including an impressive allowance victory by the promising New York-bred Bosun here Saturday.
