Posts by Justin Dew
Ed DeRosa will not agree with this post.
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…
Read MoreCup Spotlight- Guarana
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…
Read MoreCup Spotlight- Frank’s Rockette
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.…
Read MoreCup Spotlight- Scabbard (Noose)
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…
Read MoreCup Spotlight- Vitalogy
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…
Read MoreLoneSpeed Saturday Bomb of the Day
Santa Anita Race 8- #8 Kingly This is a pretty ambitious spot for a 3yo with only two prior starts on the grass. There is no doubt he’ll need to run the race of his life to win this. But there isn’t a ton of speed signed on in here. And with main pace threat…
Read MoreMight it be a Godolphin/Godolphin late Double at Keeneland?
Only one of the 11 juvenile fillies entered in today’s Grade I Alcibiades at a distance of 1 1/16th miles over the Keeneland dirt has ever been two turns. And guess what. She’s done it twice. Godolphin’s Micheline for Michael Stidham comes off a win at Monmouth in the Sorority at a mile on the…
Read MoreOf course Mongolian Groom won. Of course he did.
First, a quick personal note. LoneSpeed is not yet what I had hoped it would be. To this day, it is essentially nothing more than a personal blog. My hope is that it will eventually become a place where racing fans and bettors can come to be informed and entertained. For most of the last…
Read MoreMight Limari Offer Value?
In the 7th race at Kentucky Downs on Saturday, Brad Cox’s Limari figures to enter the gate as the favorite, and given the composition of the field, the 5/2 morning line looks about right. A review of the replays of Limari’s last two races shows that she encountered significant trouble at the start in both,…
Read MoreWell, Wow Cat sucked
Losing money at the track, while occasionally fun, is never a good thing. Losing money on a horse that you touted not just on your own website, but on Horse Racing Nation, is also not desirable. But do you wanna know what’s even worse? I’m gonna tell ya. What’s even worse is when a “featured…
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