With Oaklawn Park sharing center-of-the-racing-world status with Gulfstream Park this weekend, the Arkansas track holds a near-monopoly on this week’s New York Racing Association Cross Country Pick 5. Four of this week’s five races come from Oaklawn Park, with Aqueduct providing the lone exception. Unlike last week’s Cross Country Pick […]
Tag: Cezanne
Cezanne Looks to Write His Own Improbable Story
While Cezanne has never traveled outside of California, he does have a role model to call upon for what kind of springboard to great seasons the Grade 3 Oaklawn Mile can present. A role model doubling as a former stablemate: Improbable. Two years ago, the Bob Baffert-trained Improbable was a […]
Cezanne, Brickyard Road Renew Rivalry in San Carlos Stakes
The last time Cezanne and Brickyard Ride tangled before this Saturday’s Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita, Brickyard Ride entangled himself in a suicidal speed duel that left him nearly 10 lengths behind his rival. It came last April, in the Grade 3 6 1/2-furlong Kona Gold Stakes. […]
One Bettor Finds Their Pot of Gold Across Santa Anita’s Rainbow Pick 6
The aptly named Sweetest Angel proved to be exactly that for one lucky Santa Anita Park Pick 6 ticket holder, winning the ninth race and bringing that lone player a $423,202.71 payoff. That came courtesy of the track’s 20-cent Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot, which pays out the jackpot pool to […]
There’s More to Kentucky Derby Saturday than the Derby
On Kentucky Derby Saturday, horseplayers and fans get Tiz the Law, Honor A.P., Art Collector and the rest of the Derby Trail survivors. However, to steal a phrase from late-night TV – but wait, there’s more — to Derby Day than the Derby. Not only do you get prohibitive favorite […]
Thousand Words Has More to Say About His Derby Futures Odds
Thousand Words is now out of the Kentucky Derby futures shadow. And Cezanne is now out of the Derby futures picture. Those are the oddsmakers’ takeaways from last weekend’s Derby Prep – the Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar. Thousand Words, who spent the spring disappointing and the summer disappearing […]
Honor A.P. Returns, Cezanne Makes Stakes Debut at Shared Belief
Honor A.P. is safely in the Kentucky Derby. So safe, he’s one of the favorites. Thousand Words is not-so-safely on the Derby bubble. And Cezanne is nowhere near the Churchill Downs gate, nor the bubble. That’s the scenario all three would-be Derby contenders face entering Saturday’s Shared Belief Stakes at […]
July’s Kentucky Derby Preps Introduce New Contenders, Old Favorites
If we get a Kentucky Derby finish like the Haskell Stakes finish, they’ll be talking about that Derby for years to come. And after that Haskell, and the rest of July’s Derby preps, it’s a good time to see where the Derby contenders are at mid-summer – weird as that […]
Cezanne Creates More Buzz Entering His Second Career Race
Cezanne’s potential as a Kentucky Derby contender will be further revealed on Thursday when the Bob Baffert-trained 3-year-old enters the Los Alamitos Race Course gate for his second career race. A $3.65 million purchase and one of the loudest buzz horses on the Kentucky Derby Trail, Cezanne is the 4/5 […]
A Look Inside Circa Sports’ Crystal Ball for Building Horseracing Futures Bets
One day last month, Matt Metcalf, Circa Sportsbook’s Director, brought a homework assignment to Paul Zilm, his risk supervisor: Create a Kentucky Derby Futures Board from scratch. And when you finish, knock out one for the Belmont Stakes. Off Zilm went, spending much of the next two-plus weeks watching every […]
Ankle Injury Takes Star Baffert Colt Charlatan Out of Belmont, Derby
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s vaunted Big Three Kentucky Derby contenders is now down to a Big One with the news that Charlatan will miss the Kentucky Derby with an ankle injury. Baffert told Paulick Report Publisher Ray Paulick the undefeated Speighstown progeny suffered “a filling in a front […]