Archive for October 2018

When we last discussed West Coast here on LoneSpeed, I expressed my opinion that West Coast has a hard time gaining ground on and passing elite horses late in races.  Yes, he has passed horses before and won.  No doubt.  But if you go back and look at his three starts prior to the Awesome…

Let’s all give a nice round of applause to LoneSpeed’s newest content contributor, Craig Spencer.  Soon, Craig will have his own byline here on the website.  Just as soon as I can figure out how to do it.  Here is Craig’s analysis of the Juvenile Turf.  Get busy reading….   Most of the best US…

No matter what speed figures you use, Newspaperofrecord appears to be something approaching a stand-out in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.  Chad Brown has won the race two years in a row, and his filly will be heavily bet to make it three.  Her biggest threats appear to come from Europe, and if my…

He sold for more at auction than any other horse in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. He was favored over Game Winner when they met this summer. He lost his first two starts while sprinting and running like a horse who needed to go two turns. He won his first and only try going a route…

It’s here.  Breeders’ Cup Week is here.  The post position draw is today.  The fields will be set.  And final handicapping preparations can begin as we will have all the information we need to visualize race shape, pace, etc.  Personally, I am far from done with my handicapping, and there are very few races where…

When LoneSpeed first went live just two short months ago, the initial plan was for this website to feature a number of “smart horse racing minds”, as I said in the introduction video many of you have watched.  I wanted to have four or five regular contributors.  Well, when I realized how few people were…

In 2015, Coolmore won the Breeders’ Cup Turf at a racetrack in Kentucky by defeating that year’s Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe winner with a 3yo filly by Galileo who finished 9th in the Arc and then came back two weeks later to run a really good race at Ascot before getting on the plane…