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The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile So much has changed in the Thoroughbred industry in the past 25 years or so, the least of which is not training a race horse. Training race horses still has some basic fundamentals,...

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 11 Flaming Page Stakes – Race 6 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:38 PM Eastern It always nice when the reason for a turnaround in a horse’s form jumps off the page, and...

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 4 Note: With the potential for awful weather at Saratoga which may lead to off-turf or soft-turf races, I have decided to focus on some of the wide open races on West Virginia...

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, September 1 Saranac Stakes – Race 9 at Saratoga – Post Time 5:39 PM Eastern March to the Arch is one of three main win contenders, but as he opens at 10/1 compared to...

The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile If you missed the 70’s and 80’s in horse racing, you truly missed some glory years when the Sport of Kings was so much more than what it has been reduced to today....

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 28 King Corrie Stakes – Race 5 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:05 PM Eastern Run Away won the first three starts of his career last spring and summer, including a pair of...

The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile Too often the Sport of Kings has questions with no answers. On better days we have more questions than we do answers. That’s usually not a good place to be. Today I’ll talk...

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 21 Find Key Races & Bets for Friday, July 20th Below Ontario Colleen Stakes – Race 8 at Woodbine – Post Time 4:47 PM Eastern Trainer Graham Motion has a pair in this...

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 20 Schuylerville Stakes – Race 8 at Saratoga – Post Time 5:02 PM Eastern Opening day at Saratoga features two excellent stakes races which warrant starting the Key Races & Bets blog a...