Bob Hill – Handicapping

By David Joseph —- December 1, 2022 Late Pick 5 Carryover of $75,692 Highlights Friday Card Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Stands at $71,037 First Day on New Turf Course Scheduled for Friday HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Friday’s nine-race program at Gulfstream Park will be highlighted by...

By Robert Yates —- Chleborad Looking to Hold on to Title During 2022-23 Season The yip yip is back at Oaklawn. After briefly being headed by Ingrid Mason in the race for winningest female trainer in Oaklawn history during the 2021-2022 meeting, Lynn Chleborad used a...

By Rick Francis —- Though talk of the “Greatest” of all-time racehorses always comes back to Secretariat and the Triple Crown champions through history, one can never and should never overlook the great, “Incomprable Cigar”. A winner of 19 from 33...

By David Joseph —- Turf Racing, 5-Day Racing Week Return at Gulfstream Jockeys Saez, Leparoux Named to Ride This Weekend Horses Entered from Pletcher, Mott, Clement, Walsh, Lynch Thursday’s Card Features Three Races on Turf Open MSW, AOC Races Purses Receive Increases...

By Ryan Martin —- Mind Control to make final career start against accomplished sophomores Zandon, White Abbario in G1 Cigar Mile Handicap presented by NYRA Bets OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ dual Grade 1-winner Mind Control will attempt to go out on...

By Mike Willman —- INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR JOCKEY FRANKIE DETTORI SET TO RIDE ON SANTA ANITA’S CLASSIC MEET OPENER, DEC. 26, AND TO STAY FOR THE WINTER PAIRED WITH TOP AGENT RON ANDERSON, HE RETURNS FULL-TIME AFTER THREE DECADES ARCADIA, Calif. (Nov. 30, 2022)—Long...

by Robert Yates —- Barber Road Connections Hoping for Big Year in 2023 Barber Road returned to Oaklawn bigger and stronger. The hope now, trainer John Ortiz said Monday afternoon, is his new look translates into a new result in upcoming months. Following a grueling campaign...

By Mike Henry —- TALENTED COLT SPARKS DREAMS OF STAKES SUCCESS FOR SPIETHS OLDSMAR, FL. – Aldana Spieth thinks her 2-year-old colt Dreaming of Kona might have the most potential of any horse she has trained since going out on her own fulltime in 2014. But she isn’t in a...

By David Joseph —- Joseph Duo First to Breeze on Gulfstream’s New Turf Turf Racing Scheduled to Return on Thursday’s Card HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Fawning and Midnight Bella had the distinction of being the first horses to breeze over Gulfstream...