Bob Hill – Handicapping

By Robert Yates —- Photo Credit: Coady Photography Saturday’s All 2-Year-Old Card Features Prominent Horses and Horsemen Oaklawn has run more than 1,000 races for 2-year-olds since opening in 1905. But Saturday’s 10-race card will mark its first exclusively for 2-year-olds....

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – A string of long-shot winners, including back-to-back first-time starters in the seventh (Hoku, $39.20) and eighth (Froshado, $35) races, combined to create some large carryover pools into Friday’s nine-race card. The carryover for the...

By David Joseph —- Gulfstream Today 12.28.22 Cooke Creek Schools for Return in G3 Harlan’s Holiday Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $250,000 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Cheyenne Stable LLC’s Cooke Creek schooled in the Gulfstream Park paddock between races...

By Robert Yates —- Oaklawn to Offer First All 2-Year-Old Card Saturday For the first time in track history, Oaklawn will offer a full card of 2-year-old races Saturday highlighted by the inaugural runnings of the $150,000 Renaissance Stakes for juveniles at six furlongs and...

By David Joseph —- Colonel Liam Set for Long-Awaited Return in G2 Fort Lauderdale Richest of Six Stakes, Five Graded, Worth $850,000 in Purses Dec. 31 Pletcher Hopes to Move Forward for Third Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Multiple graded-stakes winning...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Jace’s Road Draws Clear in the Gun Runner as Cox & Geroux Team Up for a Trio of Juvenile Stakes Scores Pretty Mischievous Takes the Untapable as Walsh also scores a training hat trick New Orleans, La (December 26, 2022) – Trainers have a lot of...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Coady Photo Corona Bolt Made Favorite in Sugar Bowl, Dazzling Blue likewise in Letellier New Orleans, La (December 21, 2022) – Stonestreet Stables’ first-out winner Corona Bolt headlines a field of six juveniles colts entered in Saturday’s 73rd...

By Mike Willman —- GRADE I, $300,000 RUNHAPPY MALIBU STAKES HEADED BY BAFFERT’S TAIBA, WHO SEEKS HIS THIRD GRADE I WIN OF YEAR AND POSSIBLE ECLIPSE AWARD SPECIAL EARLY FIRST POST IS AT 11 A.M., MALIBU IS ONE OF SIX STAKES ON 11-RACE CARD ARCADIA, Calif. (Dec. 21, 2022)—A...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Six mornings a week, Alex DeLima walks from barn to barn at Tampa Bay Downs, a thermos of hot coffee in hand, eager to share a message of hope and love with the track’s backstretch population. If DeLima sees someone is busy working with a...