TRIPLE CROWN
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. I’m going to keep this one very short. If Cutting Humor wins the Kentucky Derby, I will seriously consider forgetting everything I know about handicapping. I can name at least 12 horses that I think are more likely to win. Maybe 15. That’s…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. It’s disgusting how loaded Bob Baffert is this year. Truly obscene. And to be in this kind of position to win another Kentucky Derby with yet another horse from WinStar and China Horse Club just a year after winning the Triple Crown for…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. This year’s Derby pace scenario is making my brain hurt so much, I’m having a hard time handicapping the race and constructing my approach. I thought it was writer’s block, but it’s actually pace scenario block. This is the most indecipherable pace scenario…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. I was at Del Mar the day Roadster made his career debut. The word was out. Bob Baffert had already said publicly that this guy was his “next Justify”. So the debut win was not a surprise. It is also not surprising that…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. The fact that Bill Mott saw for it enter this guy in the Tampa Bay Derby off a four- month layoff speaks volumes about the confidence he has in this son of Grade I winner Close Hatches. The fact that Tacitus won that…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. It’s hard to imagine a Kentucky Derby with Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert bringing out three live horses from his arsenal and leaving without the win. Insert Omaha Beach, my undisputed Derby horse. Richard Mandella deserves upmost praise for the work he’s…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way now. By My Standards will be the wiseguy horse come Derby Week. Take it to the bank. You can’t help but be impressed by the Louisiana Derby win. Especially as someone, like myself,…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. The results of the four grass races to start his career are a clear indicator that War of Will has talent. His first three dirt races, all of which were wins, showed he was a serious contender for the Kentucky Derby. But what…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. I have no issue with playing a horse in a route whose best races have come sprinting. Maximum Security and Bodexpress just ran 1-2 in the Florida Derby coming out of 7F races. However, when those impressive sprint performances came from way off…
Brought to you by BetPTC.com, the only ADW offering instant cash back. Go watch the replay of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs on November 24, 2018, and tell me that you can’t see Plus Que Parfait making the same move over the same track in the Kentucky Derby. I defy you. I…