LET'S GO TO THE RACES - OCT 1-2
SUPER SATURDAY!
A quick reference tool meant to help the newer fan (like me!) Note: Most links are current, however, some links update as of the Friday before Saturday race day. I usually start posting the cards for the weekend races on Wednesday afternoon. Up until the actual cards are available, I sometimes use Horse Racing Nation's "Stakes Tracker" for a 'probable' card.
SUPER SATURDAY! FALL RACING AT A FEVER PITCH:
It's time to gear up for an incredible U.S. 19 Grade 1 races in 8 days beginning Saturday, Oct. 1.
SHORT CUT: Races arranged by EDT: All Major Races Oct 1 & 2 arranged by EDT with CARDS
LIVE! Andy Serling Talking Horses each race day 12 oon-12:30 ET - Belmont races
It's time to gear up for an incredible U.S. 19 Grade 1 races in eight days beginning Saturday with FIVE AT BELMONT: Jockey Club Gold Cup, Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, Beldame, Flower Bowl, Vosburgh, and THREE AT SANTA ANITA: Lady's Secret, Goodwood, Norfolk. Also, 3 Grade 2 races at Parx and Hoosier.
If SUPER SATURDAY wasn’t super enough in the U.S., the biggest day in FRANCE features some of Europe’s richest purses on SUNDAY. The French races will be played in the morning in the U.S.
BHorse: HRTV to air SUPER SATURDAY and Arc
Full cards, more races, news and other details listed below.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LET'S GO TO THE RACES - SEP 24-25
A quick reference tool meant to help the newer fan (like me!) Note: Most links are current, however, some links update as of the Friday before Saturday race day. I usually start posting the cards for the weekend races on Wednesday afternoon. Up until the actual cards are available, I sometimes use Horse Racing Nation's "Stakes Tracker" for a 'probable' card.
DRF: Weekend stakes preview - videos
HEADLINES: PENNSYLVANIA DERBY - PARX: RATTLESNAKE BRIDGE will seek to move forward from his second in the Travers in Satuday's $1,000,000 Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby. He will face challenges by RULER ON ICE, he early favorite, but some say TO HONOR AND SERVE is the horse to beat. The GALLANT BLOOM H - BELMONT: POMEROY'S PISTOL will be the lone three year old filly in a field of her elders in the Gallant Bloom H on Saturday. The 6.5f Grade 2 sprint for f/m will include multiple stakes winner TAR HEEL MOM and TAMARIND HALL. Pomeroy's Pistol is using the Gallant Bloom as a prep for the Breeders Cup Fillies and Mares Sprint. KENT STAKES - DELAWARE PARK: Denied a sweep of Arlington Park's Mid-America Triple by a strong European contingent in the August 13 Secretariat S. (G1), WILLCOX INN (Harlan's Holiday) still rates as one of the leading three-year-olds on grass in the U.S. The Mike Stidham trainee can reaffirm that view Saturday in the $250,000 Kent S. (G3) at Delaware Park, which is scheduled at nine furlongs on the turf. KENTUCKY CUP - TURFWAY: The Kentucky Cup features two-time Grade 1 hero GENERAL QUARTERS (Sky Mesa) and Grade 2 winner WORKIN FOR HOPS (City Zip), but neither of them rates as the morning-line favorite. That distinction goes to the Mike Maker-trained BARYSHNIKOV (Empire Maker), who has been tabbed as the slight choice at 3-1 to earn his first graded victory. BLUEGRASS CAT JUVENILE - TURFWAY PARK: In the Juvenile division, HANSEN will be looking to duplicate his spectacular debut on September 9 which he won by 12+ lengths. SELENE STAKES - WOODBINE: Never a factor in the Alabama Stakes (gr. I) one month ago, Queen's Plate winner Inglorious gets back on Woodbine's Polytrack for the $250,000 Selene Stakes (Can-III) Sept. 25. Full cards, more races, news and other details listed below.
A quick reference tool meant to help the newer fan (like me!) Note: Most links are current, however, some links update as of the Friday before Saturday race day. I usually start posting the cards for the weekend races on Wednesday afternoon. Up until the actual cards are available, I sometimes use Horse Racing Nation's "Stakes Tracker" for a 'probable' card.
DRF: Weekend stakes preview - videos
HEADLINES: PENNSYLVANIA DERBY - PARX: RATTLESNAKE BRIDGE will seek to move forward from his second in the Travers in Satuday's $1,000,000 Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby. He will face challenges by RULER ON ICE, he early favorite, but some say TO HONOR AND SERVE is the horse to beat. The GALLANT BLOOM H - BELMONT: POMEROY'S PISTOL will be the lone three year old filly in a field of her elders in the Gallant Bloom H on Saturday. The 6.5f Grade 2 sprint for f/m will include multiple stakes winner TAR HEEL MOM and TAMARIND HALL. Pomeroy's Pistol is using the Gallant Bloom as a prep for the Breeders Cup Fillies and Mares Sprint. KENT STAKES - DELAWARE PARK: Denied a sweep of Arlington Park's Mid-America Triple by a strong European contingent in the August 13 Secretariat S. (G1), WILLCOX INN (Harlan's Holiday) still rates as one of the leading three-year-olds on grass in the U.S. The Mike Stidham trainee can reaffirm that view Saturday in the $250,000 Kent S. (G3) at Delaware Park, which is scheduled at nine furlongs on the turf. KENTUCKY CUP - TURFWAY: The Kentucky Cup features two-time Grade 1 hero GENERAL QUARTERS (Sky Mesa) and Grade 2 winner WORKIN FOR HOPS (City Zip), but neither of them rates as the morning-line favorite. That distinction goes to the Mike Maker-trained BARYSHNIKOV (Empire Maker), who has been tabbed as the slight choice at 3-1 to earn his first graded victory. BLUEGRASS CAT JUVENILE - TURFWAY PARK: In the Juvenile division, HANSEN will be looking to duplicate his spectacular debut on September 9 which he won by 12+ lengths. SELENE STAKES - WOODBINE: Never a factor in the Alabama Stakes (gr. I) one month ago, Queen's Plate winner Inglorious gets back on Woodbine's Polytrack for the $250,000 Selene Stakes (Can-III) Sept. 25. Full cards, more races, news and other details listed below.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
LET'S GO TO THE RACES - SEP 17-18
A quick reference tool meant to help the newer fan (like me!) Note: Most links are current, however, some links update as of the Friday before Saturday race day. I usually start posting the cards for the weekend races on Wednesday afternoon. Up until the actual cards are available, I sometimes use Horse Racing Nation's "Stakes Tracker" for a 'probable' card.
DRF: Weekend stakes preview - videos
A quick reference tool meant to help the newer fan (like me!) Note: Most links are current, however, some links update as of the Friday before Saturday race day. I usually start posting the cards for the weekend races on Wednesday afternoon. Up until the actual cards are available, I sometimes use Horse Racing Nation's "Stakes Tracker" for a 'probable' card.
DRF: Weekend stakes preview - videos
BELMONT
Sep 17
Garden City (G1), $250,000g, 3yo f, 9f (turf), Race 9, 5:18 pm ET
Sensational!
My commentary on the Garden City: I totally disagree with the commentators at the end of the Garden City race where they said it was not the jockey's fault in the Lake Placid, and they were unwilling to give credit to Javier's handling of the Garden City race. Early on, Tom Durkin’s call was Winter Memories was 3 or 4 lengths from the front, then he noted she had lost a few positions. Javier deliberately slowed her down and dropped her toward the back of the pack...he wasn't going to make the same mistake getting her bottled up in mid-pack as Jose did. I think Javier did a masterful job of not panicking, taking her to the outside and then letting her talent take over. IMHO, Jose (Lezcano) could have done the exact same thing in the Lake Placid race, but instead he chose to keep her mid-pack and it allowed others to control her fate. I give total credit to Javier for this one. And he rewarded her with a hand-ride to the finish. That was just beautiful!
BHorse: Garden City - CARD
Garden City (G1), $250,000g, 3yo f, 9f (turf), Race 9, 5:18 pm ET
Sensational!
My commentary on the Garden City: I totally disagree with the commentators at the end of the Garden City race where they said it was not the jockey's fault in the Lake Placid, and they were unwilling to give credit to Javier's handling of the Garden City race. Early on, Tom Durkin’s call was Winter Memories was 3 or 4 lengths from the front, then he noted she had lost a few positions. Javier deliberately slowed her down and dropped her toward the back of the pack...he wasn't going to make the same mistake getting her bottled up in mid-pack as Jose did. I think Javier did a masterful job of not panicking, taking her to the outside and then letting her talent take over. IMHO, Jose (Lezcano) could have done the exact same thing in the Lake Placid race, but instead he chose to keep her mid-pack and it allowed others to control her fate. I give total credit to Javier for this one. And he rewarded her with a hand-ride to the finish. That was just beautiful!
BHorse: Garden City - CARD
Sunday, September 11, 2011
POINT/COUNTERPOINT
Commentary: Time to change the structurePosted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:01 PM
Thoroughbred Times
In the movie Field of Dreams, the theme was “If you build it, they will come.” Before 1968, that theme built a lot of golf courses with events to lure professional golfers. At that time, golf was a facility-centric sport, meaning the facility where the sport is played controls everything, the product, the price, distribution, and marketing. Read more...
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Related information and background. The Jockey Club Roundtable in August 2011. Jockey Club Roundtable - Aug 2011 VIDEO Report by McKinsey & Co., "Driving sustainable growth for Thoroughbred racing and breeding". Jockey Club - McKinsey Report - PDF file
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Commentary: Fred Pope's Creative Thinking Based on Faulty Logic
Posted: 09/13/2011 1:08PM
The Daily Racing Form
by Stan Bergstein
Pope, a determined Lexington, Ky., advertising executive, racing commentator, and iconoclast, issued another lengthy commentary on the state of the game this week – this one taking up six pages of single-spaced copy on a PC printer – continuing his decades-long effort to convince racing it is following the wrong road. Read more...
Stan Bergstein is executive vice president of Harness Tracks of America and has been administrative head of that association for 49 years. His wide involvement in racing has included stints as a television commentator, racing secretary, race announcer, auctioneer, owner, and breeder, as well as a seat on the board of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium. Bergstein is the only person ever named to both harness racing's Hall of Fame and the Racing Hall of Fame.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
LET'S GO TO THE RACES - SEP 3-4
DRF: Labor Day Weekend Racing Round Up - Will have Live Video
International:
Sep 3 - Sat
Leopardstown (Dublin), Ireland
6:45 Irish champion Stakes (G1) 1 1/4 mi 3yo+ 1:45 pm ET
Racing Post: Irish Champion S - CARD
Biggest:
DRF: Labor Day Weekend Racing Round Up - Will have Live Video
International:
Sep 3 - Sat
Leopardstown (Dublin), Ireland
6:45 Irish champion Stakes (G1) 1 1/4 mi 3yo+ 1:45 pm ET
Racing Post: Irish Champion S - CARD
Racing Post: So You Think 1-3 for Irish Champion Stakes
DRF: So You Think odds choice for Irish Champion - LIVE VIDEO
Irish Champion Stakes - RACE VIDEO - So You Think wins over Snow Fairy
Sep 3
Filly, Havre de Grace challenging the boys in the Woodward!
Sartatoga: The Woodward (gr. I), $750,000g, 3&up, 1 1/8 mi
BHorse: Woodward CARD
DRF: The Woodward Preview - VIDEO BHorse: Havre de Grace to face seven in Woodward
DRF: So You Think odds choice for Irish Champion - LIVE VIDEO
Irish Champion Stakes - RACE VIDEO - So You Think wins over Snow Fairy
Sep 3
Filly, Havre de Grace challenging the boys in the Woodward!
Sartatoga: The Woodward (gr. I), $750,000g, 3&up, 1 1/8 mi
BHorse: Woodward CARD
DRF: The Woodward Preview - VIDEO BHorse: Havre de Grace to face seven in Woodward
Del Mar Derby (gr. IIT), $250,000g, 3yo, 9f (turf)
Midnight Interlude in a field of 10
Sep 5 - Labor Day
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