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By GREG MELIKOV
I’m making an addition to my handicapping toolbox after an experiment since late summer produced quite a few winners.
It’s one of the helpful features of Brisnet.com past performances listed on the front of each race - the figure beneath “SPEED.” The number is the average winning speed at the distance during a particular track’s meeting.
From time to time I adjust my toolbox. This is just another way to consider speed when handicapping races no matter the track. I still include my favorites: class, horses for courses, successful jockey-trainer combos, running styles and racing patterns.
Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 in Handicapping, Horse Racing Industry, Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Special Features | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
What a difference racing surfaces make. During the 1990s six track records were set on Santa Anita’s main dirt strip from five furlongs to 1 1/16 miles.
Things have changed since synthetic surfaces were installed last year. Here’s a look at how three of the seven distances for main track Breeders’ Cup races compare covering the past three meetings at Santa Anita.
At the ‘07 Oak Tree meeting Sept. 26-Nov. 4 over the Cushion Track, 31 percent of 67 winners at six furlongs went wire to wire, according to Brisnet.com.
Posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in Horse Racing Industry, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Special Features, Stakes Races | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
The A Team for the Belmont Stakes, according to the so-called racing experts, is comprised of Big Brown and Casino Drive. Both are undefeated Belmont Stakes entries.
Big Brown already has proved he’s the crème de la crème of the 3-year-old crop, winning the first two legs of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The son of Boundary has scored two impressive victories from extremely outside posts.
Meanwhile, the so-called buzz horse, Casino Drive, has raced just twice, once in Japan last year. He won the Peter Pan Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths at Belmont Park on May 10, but didn’t beat much of a field.
So how do the two top Belmont Stakes contenders shape up?
Posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 in Belmont Stakes, Horse Racing Industry, Horses, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips, Special Features, Stakes Races, Triple Crown | 1 Comment »
By GREG MELIKOV
Nine of the 11 Breeders’ Cup races during the two-day $23 million spectacular that begins Oct. 26 at Monmouth Park are routes, including four on the turf.
During this year’s regular 62nd meeting, the longer contests weren’t dominated by speed like sprints, but front-runners did well.
In 80 races at one mile, victorious wire-to-wire horses […]
Posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Breeders' Cup, Handicapping, Horse Racing Industry, Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips, Stakes Races | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
The Road to the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Thoroughbred World Championships in Oceanport, N.J., goes through several towns, among them Florence, Ky., and Elmont, N.Y.
On Saturday, the 14th Kentucky Cup Day of Champions at Turfway Park features five stakes worth $825,000 that will likely impact an equal number of Breeders’ Cup races next month […]
Posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in Breeders' Cup, Horse Racing Industry, Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Stakes Races | No Comments »
The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships is on October 26-27.
However, with the latest horse racing warfare merely a few weeks away, it seems there are quite a few horses who will miss horse racing’s biggest event yet.
The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships will be at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey to […]
Posted on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in Breeders' Cup, Breeding, Handicapping, Horse Racing Industry, Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
Lava Man has gone where no horse has gone before on the Left Coast. Last year he became the first thoroughbred to win the Golden State’s Big 3 stakes in the same year.
This year the son of Slew City Slew is attempting to record his own version of Can You Top This – the popular radio show (1940-54) where three funny men attempted to top jokes offered on a variety of subjects from the studio audience.
Posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in Handicapping, Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
The 2007 Whitney Handicap isn’t very old compared to other Saratoga stakes races like the Travers. When Black Mania won the inaugural in 1928, Petee-Wrack captured the 64 th Travers.
But the Whitney is historic in its own right, named for a family whose horses have won every major race in the United States. Harry Payne Whitney’s Regret was the first filly to capture the Kentucky Derby in ‘15 and earned Horse of the Year honors.
Posted on Monday, July 23rd, 2007 in Horses, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips, Stakes Races | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
An American boxing champion that became a congressman, a lawyer who made a fortune on Wall Street, the grandfather of Winston Churchill and a horseman combined to stage the first national meeting nearly 144 years ago.
It was held as an experiment. Well, the experiment, four days at Saratoga Raceway that began Aug. 3, 1863, was a huge success. So much so that the quartet decided to expand the following year and move across the street to construct a
track to accommodate larger crowds.
Posted on Monday, July 16th, 2007 in Horse Racing Industry, Race Tracks, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips, Stakes Races | No Comments »
By GREG MELIKOV
Belmont Stakes, the third and oldest jewel of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park in New York appears to be a two-horse race between Curlin and Hard Spun.
The absence of Street Sense has ushered in a couple more challengers, but they shouldn’t alter the results. Here’s a look at the horses and how they should finish in the 139th Belmont…
Posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007 in Belmont Stakes, Handicapping, Horses, Racing Analysis, Racing Picks & Betting Tips, Stakes Races, Triple Crown | No Comments »
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