Bob Hill – Handicapping

By Dna Smith —- CROSBY PRINCIPALS SHOW CLASS AND STUDIOUSLY MOVE ON Thirty yards out of the gate, Saturday’s $300,000 Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes went from high expectations to high anxiety. When 2016 Eclipse Award sprinter Drefong suddenly shot to the left at the gap where...

By Anthony Affrunti —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It had been 26 years since a Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner faced off in a race at Saratoga Race Course. Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy featured both, but like that Travers contested in 1991, neither...

By Bailey Gallison —- POSTULATION POINTING TOWARD AMERICAN ST. LEGER Runnymede Racing LLC’s Postulation, the six-length winner of the Cape Henlopen Stakes at Delaware Park on July 8, will target the Grade III American St. Leger at Arlington International Racecourse for his...

By Rick Francis —- It’s rare to find three horse starting field’s in any race much less a Graded Stakes from Saratoga, but that’s what we have here in the running of the Grade 3 Shuvee Handicap for fillies and mares; let’s take a look at the...

TSV Selections —- Race 8), 1ˆ Mile. ™CLHrsch-G1 Clement L. Hirsch S. HIRSCH S.. Grade I. Purse $300,000 FOR FILLIES AND MARES, THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD Post Time: 8:33/ 7:33/ 6:33/( 5:33) ADVANCED FORECAST: Mostly Cloudy, High 75 Low 68 Motown Lady (1), makes first start...

NYRA RELEASE —- • Maragh back in Saratoga winner’s circle for first time since 2014 • Tagg wins two in a row at the Spa; Tale of Silence likely for G1 Jerkens • Keen Ice turns in final breeze for G1 Whitney • Contessa pondering next stakes assignment for Tu Brutus...

TSV Selection —- Race 12), 1„ Mile. HsklInv-G1 betfair.com Haskell Invitational S. OM HASKELL INVITATIONAL S.. Grade I. Purse $1,000,000 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS. Post Time: ( 5:47)/ 4:47/ 3:47/ 2:47 ADVANCED FORECAST: Mostly Sunny, High 80 Low 66. Irish War Cry (1), took the...

By Dna Smith —- Bob Baffert saddles Vale Dori in running of Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch; Benoit Photo VALE DORI OUT TO BRING AN END TO BAFFERT’S DEARTH IN THE HIRSCH There are 44 different names of stakes Bob Baffert has won in compiling a Del Mar training record 121 over the...

By John Heims —- FIELD OF 7 GO FOR $1 MILLION PURSE SUNDAY With just hours until the 50th edition of the Grade 1 betfair.com Haskell Invitational, the seven competitors finished up their training earlier today to get ready for their run for the $1 million purse on Sunday. •...