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New HorseTourneys Contest Format Is a Surprise

By Justin Dew | April 1, 2021

(This was an April Fools joke.) No one can fault the sport of horse racing or any other industry for trying new things from time to time. In life and in business, if you aren’t growing, you’re losing to the competition. Having said that, the new contest format announced this week on HorseTourneys may be…

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Highway Robbery

By Justin Dew | January 24, 2021

Dylan Donnelly just had the 2020 NHC Tour Championship stolen from him. Let me explain. Soon after the Breeders’ Cup Classic was declared official, I took the Gulfstream Park elevator down to the ground floor and headed through the mostly-deserted facility on my way to the parking lot. I had opted to play from Gulfstream,…

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LoneSpeed 2020 Kentucky Derby Analysis

By Justin Dew | September 5, 2020

It’s finally here. Assuming protesters don’t burn down Churchill Downs between now and Saturday evening, the long-awaited Kentucky Derby with zero fans in attendance will finally happen. And when it does, we’ll be less than eight months away from the next Kentucky Derby. But we can talk about that later. For now, we have horses…

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I need a new long shot, and I think I have him.

By Justin Dew | August 27, 2020

I’ve been staring at this screen for the last 12 minutes as I struggle with how to start this post. So many thoughts are running through my brain, and I think I just need to make this a stream-of-consciousness thing. No order. No concern for sentence structure. None of it. I had Animal Kingdom in…

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LoneSpeed Belmont Stakes Analysis

By Justin Dew | June 20, 2020

Over the course of the last few days, as I’ve watched replays, analyzed pace and speed figures, and attempted to project how the Belmont Stakes would unfold at this abbreviated distance, I have landed on no fewer than five horses as my top pick. So you know my ultimate pick is hardly a play of…

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