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BREEDERS' CUP 2011: Training, not racing, to Louisville (Updated)
Update: At the bottom of the post I've added data of Breeders' Cup winners and their time off for every race since 2005. Original Post: News from both coasts today indicated two horses will train up to the Breeders' Cup instead of running in a prep race sometime in the next two weeks. Met Mile and...
Weekend Re-Cap: A Classic Mess
I hope everyone had a nice weekend, especially any of those of you that are fathers. Hopefully your kids treated you to something nice to celebrate the day. I didn't spend much time in front of the Racing Form this weekend; sort of a weekend-off. Seems like the first time in a long while that...
Stephen Foster Handicap: Entries, Post Positions and Morning Line Odds
In years when the Breeders' Cup is held at Churchill Downs, the Stephen Foster has it's importance and relevance turned up a notch or two. A win over the Classic surface at Churchill, especially if done impressively, would move the winner up the older horse rankings, as it did for Blame in 2010...
2010 Eclipse Awards: Zenyatta Wins Horse of the Year
Zenyatta was named 2010 Horse of the Year at tonight's Eclipse Award banquet in Florida, narrowly beating out the horse she lost to at the Breeders' Cup, Blame. Final Horse of the Year vote: Zenyatta - 128Blame - 102Goldikova (IRE) - 5 A very surprising result, at least in my mind, as I figured...
Channeling Rob Neyer: A different look at the Eclipse Awards
If you are a baseball fan and have spent any amount of time reading ESPN.com's Rob Neyer in the past you know that he likes to utilize a "Player A" vs. "Player B" approach to evaluating statistics between hitters or pitcher. The idea behind analyzing two players "anonymously" is to attempt to take...
Grade 1 Clark Handicap: Entries and Post Positions
While many people will flock to the shopping malls the day after Thanksgiving for "Black Friday", some of us degenerate gamblers might take a peek at the racing action over at Churchill Downs and the 136th running of the Grade 1 Clark Handicap. Grade 1 Clark Handicap Churchill Downs 1 1/8 miles...
Random thoughts on a Tuesday
A few thoughts that have been rummaging around my head during the post-Breeders' Cup malaise: -I suppose it's awful of me to write this but I really could care less about the voting for Horse of the Year. To me, it's like finding out the winner of the Cy Young Award, NFL MVP, or the Heisman...
2010 Breeders' Cup Payouts
The Breeders' Cup may be one of the most difficult betting weekends of the year but you can't say that you aren't rewarded if you can find a winning combination. The 2010 edition of the cup was no exception as only two of the fourteen winners at this year's Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs paid...
2010 Breeders' Cup: Pace and Zenyatta's Obstacle
I've got two different tables in this post the first of which summarizes the winner of each Breeders' Cup race along with the overall pace for that event. The second table lists each winner along with their internal splits and final Beyer figures (via DRF.com). One thing to take note of from the...
2010 Breeders' Cup: Thoughts on the weekend
I don't know if everyone else has recovered yet from the past weekend of racing but I got back from Louisville yesterday afternoon and had little left in the tank. I'm working on a bigger post re-caping all of the races from this past weekend but here's a quick that on my general thoughts from the...
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