The Race After the Cut-Back Yields Value
By: Andy Plattner
A frequent dilemma for handicappers is how to deal with a horse that is cutting back in distance from its last race. There are two main schools of thought here: one is that any horse racing at a shorter distance will be more than fit enough to negotiate this distance; the
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Racing Today
By: John Piesen
The first half of the 36-day Saratoga race meeting wasnt all gloom, doom and monsoons. We saw some nice 2-year-olds, mostly from the barn of Todd Pletcher, who won a record-breaking 24 races in 18 days.That said, the most impressive 2-year-old was a colt named Birdstone,
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The Freshened Repeater Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
Fall racing provides many more opportunities for the angleplayer than any other season of the year. We suppose this is because many trainers get thefeeling that they are running out of time and can"t aff
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ATC Lead
By: Joe Girardi
This past weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar (August 9th and 10th) we saw Graded stakes races at both tracks. Saratoga had a Grade I and a Grade II, while Del Mar had two Grade II’s. We saw the reigning Horse of The Year score another impressive victory over a very over matched field and the preview of some of the major turf races along with some very solid sprinters.
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TV Schedule
August 15 - Thoroughbred Classics: Arlington Million, 6:00-6:30pm, ESPN Classic
- Thoroughbred Classics: Alabama Stakes, 6:30-7:00pm, ESPN Classic
August 16 - Wire to Wire, 5:30-6:30am, ESPN
- Thoroughbred Classics: Alabama Stakes, 7:00-7:30am, ESPN Classic
- Thoroughbred Classics: Arlington Million, 7:30-8:00am, ESPN Classic
- SportsCentury: Secretariat, 10:30-11:30am, ESPN Classic
- Horse Racing: Arlington Million & Alabama Stakes, 5:00-6:00pm, ESPN
August 17 - SportsCentury: Secretariat, 12:30-1:30am, ESPN Classic
- Horse Racing: Best Pal Stakes & Iselin Handicap, 5:00-6:00pm, ESPN
August20 - Wire to Wire, 12:30-1:00pm, ESPN2
August 22 - Horse Racing: Personal Ensign Handicap, 5:00-6:00pm, ESPN2
August 23 - Wire to Wire, 5:30-6:30am, ESPN
- Horse Racing: Travers Stakes, 5:00-7:00pm, ESPN
- SportsCentury: Seattle Slew, 8:00-9:00pm ESPN Classic
August 24 - Seabiscuit: Making the Movie, 7:00-8:00pm, ESPN Classic
- Horse Racing: Pacific Classic & Ballerina Handicap, 5:00-6:00pm, ESPN
August 25 - SportsCentury: Seattle Slew, 12:00-1:00pm ESPN Classic
August 27 - Movie: Dead Cert, 11:30am-1:30pm, The Movie Channel
- Wire to Wire, 2:00-2:30pm, ESPN2
- Movie: Dead Cert, 5:50-7:50pm, The Movie Channel
August 29 - Seabiscuit: Making the Movie, 7:00-8:00pm, ESPN Classic
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