A CHALKY SATURDAY?
By: By John Piesen:
At first glance, Super Saturday's stakes six-pack at Belmont Park, featuring short fields and short-priced favorites as it does, looks like a chalkfest.
But looks can be deceiving. Look no further than Wednesday's second race. After one scratch, we were left with a five-horse field -- and
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Betting Odds Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
Circumstances alter cases. A need for the price rule we are going to write about is the circumstance that alters much of what we have written about price rules in past articles.
Every racing fan of any real experience knows that the prices his wi
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD
By: JOE GIRARDI
For just $10 a day you get three selections on the NYRA circuit. Here are some of the winners you would have
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Post times revealed for 28th Breeders' Cup
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Evening conclusions for each day of racing for the 2011 Breeders' Cup World Championships was confirmed on Thursday. The two-day event will be held on November 4-5 at Chu
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Blind Luck versus six in Lady's Secret
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Champion filly Blind Luck returns to the races on Saturday in the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes at Santa Anita Park. The four-year-old will face six challengers in the 1 1/16-mile race.
The Lady's Secret is part of the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" program
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Fields set for Breeders' Cup preview stakes
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - Entries have been drawn for Saturday's Belmont Park stakes races that serve as a preview for the 28th Breeders' Cup next month. The major focus will be on the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup and the $350,000 Beldame Invitational which a
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Plum Pretty heads Cotillion Stakes field
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Bensalem, PA (Sports Network) - Plum Pretty, winner of the Kentucky Oaks, tops a field of six three-year-old fillies for Saturday's $750,000 Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia.
Last year's Cotillion was won by Havre de Grace over eventual Eclipse Award winner Blind Luck
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National Poll unchanged going into big weekend
By: SPORTS NETWORK
New York, NY (Sports Network) - With several major stakes races on the docket this coming weekend, the top 10 horses in the latest NTRA Poll are basically unchanged for the week ending Sunday, September 25.
Four-year-old filly Havre de Grace remains in the to
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To Honor and Serve easily wins PA Derby
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Bensalem, PA (Sports Network) - To Honor and Serve, ridden by Jose Lezcano, easily handled eight other three-year-olds Saturday in winning the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia. The colt covered the 1 1/8-miles in 1:47.34 on a fast track.
Sent off as the 8
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Tizway sidelined for Gold Cup
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - Whitney Handicap winner Tizway has been ruled out of the upcoming Jockey Club Gold Cup after missing a workout. The six-- year-old showed a fever Thursday that prevented him from having a Friday training session.
"He spiked a fev
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Weekly Television Schedule
October 1
- Jockey Club Gold Cup Day, Belmont Park, 4:30-7:30PM, ESPN Classic
October 2
- Movie: Casey's Shadow, 7:00-9:30AM, Antenna TV
October 7
- Darley Alcibiades and Stoll Keenon Phoenix Stakes, Keeneland, 5:00-6:00PM, Versus
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Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
October 1
- Belmont Park: The Jockey Club Gold Cup Inv. (G1), $750,000, 3&up, 10f (BC Win & You're In)
- Belmont Park: Flower Bowl Inv. (G1), $500,000, 3&up f&m, 10f T (BC Win & You're In)
- Belmont Park: Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Inv. (G1), $500,000, 3&am
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