The Eclipse Awards are horse racing’s Oscars or Emmys. It crowns the best of the best, and this year’s event will be Jan. 16 at Gulfstream Park. The show will be televised live on TVG.
Richard Eng
Jan. 1 marks the start of the New Year for all of us humans. It also is the common birthday of all horses. That’s a good thing, too. It makes a large bag of carrots or mints a perfect birthday gift for a barn full of horses.
For track announcer Trevor Denman, we were told he is retiring as the voice of Santa Anita Park. That’s true. But then I got a Del Mar press release saying Denman will call the races there in 2016.
I am sure there are a lot of good ideas being bandied about at the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program Global Symposium on Racing and Gaming in Tucson, Arizona.
I have written for years my belief that shrinking field sizes in American racing is not a horse shortage. It is an owner shortage.
Thanksgiving weekend means great horse racing action from coast to coast. Among the main stakes offerings are four grade 1 events, the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs, the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct and at Del Mar the Hollywood Derby and Matriarch.
I know a lot of horseplayers who focus their main plays on stakes races. The logic is pretty simple. In 99.9 percent of the time, they don’t have to worry about deception. Horses are in a stakes race to win it.
I wouldn’t call winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile a jinx. But the success rate of the Juvy winner the next spring in the Kentucky Derby has been, quite frankly, abysmal.
There is no doubt in my mind that a Hollywood movie will be made about a winner of a Breeders’ Cup race Saturday at Keeneland. The script is writing itself as we speak.
A reminder that horses are flesh and blood, just like humans, was the scratch of Beholder from the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The 5-year-old mare was to be Triple Crown winner American Pharoah’s main foe.
The two-day Breeders’ Cup on Oct. 30 and 31 is a week away. If you don’t have tickets to sold-out Keeneland, and remember there is no walk-up this year, then Las Vegas is your next best place to enjoy it.
The $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic figures to be the most anticipated edition ever. That is what happens when you have the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years, American Pharoah, scheduled to run.
If you have watched a televised sporting event in the past three months, you had to have seen ads from DraftKings.com and FanDuel.com.
Another wave of Breeders’ Cup prep races will take place this weekend from Belmont Park and Keeneland.
Saturday is must-see TV for any horse racing fan serious about making money on the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland on Oct. 30 and 31.