Archive for October 2019

Two days. 14 races. Lots of opportunities to make money. I don’t have opinions in every race, but I do in many of them. Let’s get started. Juvenile Turf- The temptation here is to go with whichever Euro you think is best. And I won’t talk you out of that approach given how dominant shippers…

It is possible, though highly unlikely, that multiple races on Breeders’ Cup weekend could be won by horses named Mr. somethings-or-other. Let’s take a look at them and decide just how many we need to take seriously.       Mr. Tip may run in the Juvenile Turf Sprint on Friday for Calumet and Jack…

If it seems like forever ago that Giant Expectations wired them in the San Antonio at 13-1 on opening day of the Santa Anita meet, that’s because it kinda was. If Giant Expectations makes the starting gate for the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, he will be searching for his first win in nearly two…

Is it laughable to suggest that a seven-time Grade 1 winner is overrated? It has to be, doesn’t it? What comes after laughable? “Beyond absurd”? Something else? Whatever. I don’t care. I’m going to do it anyway. The most overrated racehorse in America is Elate. The second-most overrated is Sistercharlie. Sistercharlie’s final race in Europe…

Distaff, or Filly and Mare Sprint? I say, who cares? In Chad we trust. It’s easy to dismiss a romping debut win in the slop. How many times have we seen a horse win for fun over an off track and then never duplicate that performance? Several. So draw a line through Guarana’s maiden-breaker back…

UPDATE: Disregard this entire post because she isn’t running in the Breeders’ Cup, according to an article in Daily Racing Form on Thursday. Frank’s Rockette has been favored in all four career starts. Yet she has lost all three since her dominating maiden victory in the debut. So you may call her a money burner.…

You may remember him as Noose. But because social justice warriors seem to always get their way these days, you now must call him Scabbard. Regardless of the name, he’s sure to fly into Arcadia under the radar in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. With Eight Rings, Maxfield, and Dennis’ Moment set to take piles upon…

We are under three weeks to go until the Breeders’ Cup, and that means it’s time for us to become familiar with as many of the contenders in as many of the races as possible. And while so much can change between now and November 1st, I think Vitalogy, an expected entrant in the Juvenile…