THRU THE BINOCULARS
By: By JOHN PIESEN
REMEMBER THE NAME
The most intriguing 3-year-old prospect I've seen at Gulfstream Park this winter has been a colt named One Sock Down.
Owned by the same Fantasy Lane partnership that gave us Uptowncharleybrown, One Sock Down, by Dehere out of a Secretariat mare, was purchased fo
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JOHN PIESEN SELECTIONS
By: JOHN PIESEN
John Piesen, NY's Legendary Handicapper
and the "Most Connected" Man In Racing
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Assessing Across-the-Board Action
By: By Ray Taulbot
The following is an article by Ray
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD-WISH LIST FOR 2012
By: JOE GIRARDI
As another year comes to an end and will welcome in 2012 we have some wishes for the racing world in the upcoming year. Most of
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Gulfstream Park to host 2013 Eclipse Awards
By: SPORTS NETWORK
New York, NY (Sports Network) - As part of a two-year agreement with The Stronach Group to co-sponsor the Eclipse Awards, next year's 42nd awards ceremony will be held at Gulfstream Park in Florida.
The sponsorship contract with the National Thoroughbred Racing Associat
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California Derby attracts seven for Saturday
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Berkeley, CA (Sports Network) - The first of two stakes races for three-year- olds at Golden Gate Fields this winter goes off on Saturday with the running of the $100,000 California Derby. The 1 1/16-mile race is a prep event for the track's $200,000 El Camino Real Derby on February 18.
The
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Apprentice Jockey finalists unchanged
By: SPORTS NETWORK
New York, NY (Sports Network) - Due to an error in statistics involving the voting for the 2011 Eclipse Award for Apprentice Jockey, a re-vote has been conducted by the affected organizations.
On Wednesday, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf
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Filly to face the boys in Smarty Jones
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hot Springs, AR (Sports Network) - Oaklawn Park's series for three-year-olds on the Kentucky Derby trail will get underway on Monday, January 16 with the running of the $100,000 Smarty Jones Stakes. The mile event was won last year by eventual Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile champ Caleb's Posse.
Whi
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Holy Bull Stakes awaits Hansen
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Hansen will make his 2012 debut in the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park on January 29. The three-year-old colt is owned by Dr. Kendall Hansen and trained by Mike Maker.
"This horse has been such a dream," Dr. Hansen sai
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Out of Bounds edges Secret Circle in Sham Stakes
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Lightly regarded Out of Bounds caught the favorite Secret Circle at the wire to win Saturday's $100,000 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park. The early season stakes for three-year-olds begins Santa Anita's Kentucky Derby preps.
Setting the pace in the mile event wa
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Count Fleet Stakes belongs to Alpha
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Ozone Park, NY (Sports Network) - Odds-on favorite Alpha put himself in the Kentucky Derby picture with a solid victory in Saturday's $150,000 Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct. The Count Fleet is Aqueduct's first stakes of 2012 for three-year-olds.
Alpha, trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, went off
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Weekly Television Schedule
April 7
- Road to the Kentucky Derby, Wood Memorial and Santa Anita Derby, 4:30-6:00PM, NBC
May 2
- Derby Classics, 4:00-5:00PM, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus)
- Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw, 5:00-6:00PM, NBC Sports Network
May 3
Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
January 13
- Oaklawn Park: Fifth Season S., $75,000, 4&up, 8.5f
January 14
- Delta Downs: Genesis S., $75,000, 3yo f, 7.5f
- TDelta Downs: riple Sec, $75,000, 3yo, 7.5f
- Fair Grounds: Marie G. Krantz Memorial H., $75,000, 4&up, f&
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