Bob Hill – Handicapping

By STABLE NOTES BY SANTA ANITA PRESS BOX —- SUNDAY, JAN. 05, 2025 HOF TRAINER BOB BAFFERT MAPS OUT HIS STARS 2024 ECLIPSE AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED SUNDAY MYSTERY VOUCHER PROMOTION UNVEILS $10,000 JUAN HERNANDEZ HAS WINNING DAY SATURDAY MEMORIAL FOR MEL & ANNABELLE...

By David Joseph —- GULFSTREAM TODAY 1.5.25 Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Yields Multiple $36,102 Payoffs Sequence Begins Anew When Live Racing Resumes Wednesday Gulfstream Well-Represented Among Eclipse Award Finalists HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – A mandatory payout of the 20-cent...

Compiled by Robert Yates —- Riding the momentum of a career year in 2024, trainer Greg Compton opened 2025 by checking off a bucket-list item Saturday at Oaklawn when G W’s Girl captured the $150,000 Mockingbird Stakes. The Mockingbird, a six-furlong race for 3-year-old...

National Thoroughbred Racing Association —- 2024 Eclipse Awards Finalists Announced LEXINGTON, Ky. (January 5, 2025) – The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) today announced the...

By Mike Henry —- INAUGURAL RUNNER-UP NAUGHTY RASCAL GEARS UP FOR OWEN ALMIGHTY OLDSMAR, FL. – After watching Naughty Rascal breeze 4 furlongs in 49 1/5 seconds this morning, trainer Gerald Bennett believes the 3-year-old colt is coming up to Saturday’s $150,000, 7-furlong...

By Kevin Kilroy —- East Avenue, Immersive Top Early Louisiana Derby Nominations Nominees also eligible for the Lecomte and Risen Star New Orleans, La (Jan. 5, 2025) – Early nominations for the 112th running of the $1 million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) at Fair...

Compiled by Robert Yates When he runs, he’s good. The problem for Bishops Bay is he hasn’t run often. “Nothing major,” trainer Brad Cox said, when asked about the horse’s physical history. “A lot of small things. No surgeries or anything along the way.” Armed with only five...

By David Joseph —- Guns Loaded – right – the Mucho Macho Man credit Ryan Thompson Guns Loaded Fires Big in $165,000 Mucho Macho Man Win One-Mile Stakes Kicks Off Gulfstream’s Road to Florida Derby (G1) HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Morplay Racing, Joey Platts and Lady...

Cyclone State takes $150K Jerome by storm By Mary Eddy OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Gold Square, George Messina and Michael Lee’s Cyclone State stormed home in dominant fashion to win Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome, a one-turn mile for sophomores, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Chad...