Breeder’s Cup

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…

With just about 24 hours until pre-entries are announced, I thought this would be a good time to go over the one horse in each BC Saturday race that my good friend Steve Decaspers might call “interesting”.  An interesting horse is not necessarily one that you’ll bet on to win.  It’s not even one that…

On paper, it’s not hard to make a case for Whitmore in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.  He has nine wins from 13 starts at the distance- more than any other contender.  He’s versatile enough to sit a stalking trip, or close from farther back.  And he’s a Grade 1 winner, albeit at 7 furlongs.  Promises…

When the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Classic was over, it looked like Collected was poised to be the King of the Mountain in 2018.  Gun Runner was set to retire after one more race.  West Coast had the look of a major force in the handicap division, but Collected had simply outrun him in the Breeders’…

Immediately after Complexity won the Champagne for Chad Brown and Klaravich Stables, I declared in front of the entire human population of Planet Earth that he would be my play in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.  And after Knicks Go stole the Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, I posted here at LoneSpeed that Derby Date was the…

We still have two weeks to go before they break from the gate on Breeders’ Cup Friday.  Pre-entires will be out next week, and we’ll all get a chance to start really handicapping.  But why not take a few minutes right now and rampantly, irresponsibly speculate about which longshots might end up as part of…

Well, she’s coming. Enable, the winner of the last two Prix de L’Arc de Triomphes, is set to catch a flight to America and go heavily favored in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.  And there will undoubtedly be others coming from Europe for the race along with her.  It’s no surprise.  As I have ranted here…

It is undeniable that through two career starts, Newspaperofrecord givers the appearance that she is more than just good.  More than just a top juvenile filly.  She may be special.  That word gets thrown around a lot, but at this early stage, she’s well on her way to earning that designation.  So it’s no surprise…