Correll’s Derby Top Ten: Essential Quality heads the List

Ron Correll Senior Columnist Tracksideview With just two months to the 147th Kentucky Derby on May 1, it’s time to unveil my first Derby Top 10 of 2021. Leading off is the 2-year-old champion Essential Quality who looked like he hadn’t lost a step in winning the...
Posted On 01 Mar 2021
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Breeders’ Cup Multi-race Picks for Saturday

By Ron Correll and Bob Hill —- Here are our picks for the Saturday Breeders’ Cup card. As was the case with Friday’s picks, the suggestions are intended to inform your play in multi-race wagers such as the Pick 3, Pick 4, and Pick 5. These wagers typically produce sizeable...
Posted On 06 Nov 2020
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Breeders’ Cup Friday Multi-race Selections

By Ron Correll and Bob Hill —- The selections that follows are the product of a collaboration between Ron Correll and Bob Hill. They are intended to inform players who are going to make multi-race wagers. Friday is presented as Futures Day as races involving two-year-olds...
Posted On 06 Nov 2020
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146th Kentucky Derby: The race is for second

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Tiz the Law; Gulfstream Park Photo Tiz the Law was made the 3-5 morning-line favorite year’s Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. With this derby being run four months later than usual none of these...
Posted On 01 Sep 2020
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Tiz the Law’s dominant Travers win secures top Derby contenders spot

on Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- If Tiz the Law stays healthy there is not a 3-year-old in the country that will beat him in this year’s Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. He proved that on Aug. 8 when he destroyed the...
Posted On 09 Aug 2020
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Tiz the Law stays atop “thinning” Kentucky Derby contenders

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Authentic may have won the Haskell on July 18 at Monmouth Park, but I’ll go out on a big limb and say he’s no Kentucky Derby horse. He may be by Into Mischief but he’s going to have trouble getting 10 furlongs, even in...
Posted On 20 Jul 2020
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Tiz the Law stays atop Kentucky Derby Dozen

1Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Tiz the Law; Gulfstream Park Photo The only thing that the Grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes proved on July 11 at Keeneland is there are very few challengers to Tiz the Law as the top 3-year-old and “early” favorite for this...
Posted On 13 Jul 2020
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Tiz the Law tops Derby contenders; Gamine joins the club

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Tiz the Law left little doubt that he is the “Beast in the East” as far the 3-year-old class is concerned with his dominating win in the Belmont Stakes on June 20 in New York. The top ranks of the division are thinning more with...
Posted On 24 Jun 2020
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Baffert contenders slide; Maxfield stays atop

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- In little more than a week, trainer Bob Baffert went from the top of the 3-year-old world to wondering if a maiden winner is his next Kentucky Derby superstar. Baffert lost both Nadal and Charlatan to injuries and his undefeated...
Posted On 08 Jun 2020
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Maxfield “canteres” into Derby Dozen

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Maxfield; Churchill Downs Photo Maxfield proved that he has grown from being a good 2-year-old to maybe a great 3-year-old. The son of Street Sense easily powered by some over-matched talent to take the Matt Winn at Churchill Downs on...
Posted On 24 May 2020
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