Bob Hill – Handicapping

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Belmont Park Notes Joey Freshwater tries turf on eight day’s rest in $150K Paradise Creek Ottoman Fleet breezes for G1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Venti Valentine works for 4-year-old debut in $200K Critical Eye H. Belmont Park Week 4 stakes...

Preakness Day Picks at Pimlico by Bob Hill, TSV staff writer Here are picks for the four listed and five graded stakes races carded at Pimlico for Preakness Day 2023. The weather forecast is for intermittent showers on Saturday so the possibility of wet going has to be...

STABLE NOTES BY VICTOR RYAN —- THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023 PREAKNESS WEEK: BAFFERT, BLACKER, D’AMATO INVADE PIMLICO EURTON BARN HAS THINGS ROLLING AT THE HOLLYWOOD MEET BRICKYARD RIDE LEADS A LIGHT WORK TAB THURSDAY JOCKEY KYLE FREY HEATING UP WITH PAIR OF 2-WIN DAYS TICKETS FOR...

By Bob Hill, TSV staff writer —- Twelve fillies have been entered for the G2 Black-Eyed Susan this Friday at Pimlico Race Track. The weather forecast is calling for temperatures in the low 70s and it appears that the racing surface will be dry. Here’s a look at his the...

By Mike Willman —- BACK ON TURF, FREEDOM FLYER RATES NOD IN WIDE-OPEN $100,000 MIZDIRECTION STAKES SATURDAY AS NINE DISTAFFERS GO 6 ½ FURLONGS DOWN HILLSIDE TURF ARCADIA, CA (May 17, 2023)—With a return to her preferred surface, trainer Leonard Powell’s Freedom Flyer merits...

By Rick Francis —- The 98th Running of the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan drew a starting field of twelve 3-year-old filly’s highlighted by the Bob Baffert trained Faiza. A strong pair from the Brad Cox barn along with the Tom Amoss conditioned Hoosier Philly look to snap...

By Mary Eddy —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Westerberg, Mrs. John Magnier, Jonathan Poulin, Derrick Smith and Michael B. Tabor’s stakes-winning New York-bred Eye Witness returns to action in Saturday’s $150,000 Paradise Creek, a seven-furlong Widener turf sprint for sophomores, at...

By Tom Luicci —- SPINA LOOKING TO JUMPSTART 2023 MONMOUTH CAMPAIGN WITH MIA’S CRUSADE IN SATURDAY’S SPRUCE FIR HANDICAP OCEANPORT, N.J. – Six weeks shy of his 75th birthday, trainer Chuck Spina isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. A year after tying for the Monmouth...

STAFF POST —- OGMA Investments, Ramiro Restrepo, Sterling Racing, and CMNWLTH racing group’s Kentucky Derby winner MAGE drew post position 3 in a field of eight for the running of the 148th Preakness Stakes from Pimlico Race Course.