Saturday Spots December 30th 2023

Starting things off out West down the hill at Santa Anita I’m a Gambler looks interesting in the Grade 2 Joe Hernandez. The 4-year-old gelding takes blinkers off after a subpar effort and adds Frankie. He looks like he will...

Suwanee River Stakes – Race 8 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 3:32 PM Eastern Win contenders: Accomplished Girl, Sister Lou Ann, Fast as Flight Fast as Flight appears to have just been in as a prep for this race...

Tropical Park Oaks – Race 8 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 3:36 PM Eastern Win contenders: Startup Mentality, Implicated, Be My SunshineFor exactas (second position): Cairo Consort, Breath Away Startup Mentality and Implicated (both trained by Chad Brown) finished...

In this episode of the podcast, sponsored by AmWager, we talk with special guest Leo Vukmanovich about his many years of experience as a horseplayer in Southern California.

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We don’t run many two-mile races here in the US. Turf, dirt, synthetic, it doesn’t really matter it is a distance we just don’t race at much. We don’t really breed horses to go that far anymore, nor to be...

Friday December 15 – Remington Springboard Mile – Race 10 at Remington Park – Post Time 10:28 PM Eastern Otto the Conqueror stands out in this nine horse field but with Doug O’ Neill shipping in Raging Torrent from southern...

They say pace makes the race and we have all seen that hold true often enough. There is plenty of speed signed on in The Garland of Roses Saturday at Aqueduct and for me a filly who should be running...

Wait a While Stakes – Race 6 at Gulfstream – Post Time 2:34 PM Eastern Win contenders: Milliat, Ozara Ozara and Milliat have the bulk of the probability to win this two-turn turf route for two year old fillies, but...

The Cigar Mile drew a full field of 12. Not bad for one of the last remaining major races on the 2023 calendar year. The field looks competitive, and we’ll see how it shapes up and where we land. Coastal...