Welcome to Tacos and Trifectas! Each week, America’s Best Racing’s Southern California correspondent Jose Contreras – @LosPonies to those who follow him on Twitter – will provide a taco review along with a selection that he will key in trifecta bets in hopes of winning some cash to buy more tacos! Contreras will map out a trifecta…
The message to the horse racing industry in California must be clear: Implement tough safety standards at your tracks or risk the state closing them down altogether. Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed legislation giving the California Horse Racing Board greater authority to close tracks that aren’t adequately protecting the health and safety of horses…
Los Alamitos Race Course Charts Results for Thursday, July 4. Copyright 2019 by Equibase Company. Reproduction prohibited. Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos, California. 3rd day of a 10-day meet. Clear & Fast FIRST RACE. 1 Mile. Purse: $18,000. Maiden Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Prices $40,000-$35,000. Time 23.01 46.60 1:12.03 1:25.25 1:38.78…
Dan’s Double of the Week, featuring handicapping analysis from America’s Best Racing’s New York correspondent Dan Tordjman, is brought to you by Horseplayers.com, the official online qualifying site of the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) and National Horseplayers Championship (NHC). Horseplayers.com offers low-cost feeders every day and BCBC and NHC qualifiers every weekend, and it’s the only site where…
Acacia Courtney, shown interviewing trainer Bob Baffert, joining NYRA’s ‘Saratoga Live’ broadcast team The New York Racing Association has announced that Acacia Courtney will join the Saratoga Live broadcast team for the 2019 summer meet at historic Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Saratoga Live, which launched in 2016 in partnership with Fox Sports, will widely…
Fifty-three-year-old Monticello resident Wendy Brandt competed in her first horse race at the age of 4. She’s still racing horses — including in the upcoming Dash for Canyon Cash Extreme Barrel Race and Independence Day Rally happening on July 6 and 7 in Moab. Brandt co-founded the equine event with her husband, Jeff Brandt, and…
If you’re already getting excited for the 2019 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita, then you won’t want to miss the $700,000, Grade 2 Suburban Stakes on Saturday, July 6 at Belmont Park. The Suburban serves as a steppingstone toward the prestigious $6 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Since both races are held over 1…
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we give you a chance to win a book that will help you evaluate seven-furlong races. The holiday spirit abounds. Welcome back to Thursdays. We haven’t had a Thursday newsletter since April 4. Once Golden Gate Field gets going again,…
The $1 million Belmont Derby comes a couple of days after the Fourth of July and in its brief, five-year history it has certainly produced a goodly amount of fireworks – at the betting windows. A highlight of Saturday’s Stars and Stripes Racing Festival at Belmont Park, the 1 ¼-mile grass stakes for 3-year-olds has…
By Ngoc Huynh | [email protected] | Posted July 03, 2019 at 07:00 AM | Updated July 03, 2019 at 07:26 AM Make the most of your July summer with many outdoor concerts, food festivals, garage sales and more. It’s a busy month with so much to do in Upstate New York. Sterling Renaissance Festival Michael…
