{Thursday, March 31, 2011} Uncle Mo looms as strong favorite in final Derby Future Pool Repole Stable's unbeaten champion UNCLE MO (Indian Charlie) (#22), who has yet to be challenged in his four career races, looms as a strong favorite when

{Tuesday, March 29, 2011} AQUEDUCT MAIN TRACK SPRING PREVIEW
By OTB'S Noel Michaels The Aqueduct main track spring meet -- which opens Wednesday, March 30 for 18 racing days leading up to the opening of Belmont at the

{Monday, March 28, 2011} WORTH REPEATING TAKES TOKYO CUP Going farther than he ever had before, Worth Repeating turned back the strong bid of Honour the Deputy in deep stretch for his first stakes win in the $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (gr.

{Sunday, March 27, 2011} Swift Warrior flies home in Rushaway The $100,000 Rushaway S. was the lead-in race to the Spiral S. (G3) at Turfway Park on Saturday, and James Covello and James Dolan's SWIFT WARRIOR (First Samurai) easily captured

{Friday, March 25, 2011} GULFSTREAM'S PAN AMERICAN A GOOD SPOT FOR PRINCE WILL I AM Prince Will I Am exploded off the final turn to win the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida earlier this winter. Although he will be stretching out an additional furlong,

{Wednesday, March 23, 2011} WIN AT GULFSTREAM ON FLORIDA DERBY DAY AND BEYOND By Noel Michaels The Gulfstream Park meet is 2½ months old and we are already approaching the centerpiece of the meet - Florida Derby Day - on Sunday, April 3. 

{Monday, March 21, 2011} BEJARANO SWEEPS SANTA ANITA SUNDAY In doing so, she ran to her odds as the 1-2 favorite, gave jockey Rafael Bejarano a sweep of the day's two stakes, and further enhanced her status as a 3-year-old filly to follow. Mildly

{Sunday, March 20, 2011} Quantum Miss holds for Cicada victory Daniel M. Ryan's homebred QUANTUM MISS (Smoke Glacken) set nearly all the pace in Saturday's $100,000 Cicada S. (G3) at Aqueduct and had just enough left to hold the late run

{Friday, March 18, 2011} SWAY AWAY LEADS UP DERBY TOP 10 Early one evening just about a month ago I received a phone call. I was told that there was a 3-year-old who had not started yet in 2011 that I should seriously consider adding to

{Thursday, March 17, 2011} SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA Cal Nation highlights Inside Information undercard Before attention is turned to the $150,000 Inside Information S. (G2) at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, a $55,600 entry-level

{Sunday, March 13, 2011} Premier Pegasus soars in San Felipe Bouncing back with a vengeance from his first career loss in the February 20 San Vicente S. (G2), PREMIER PEGASUS (Fusaichi Pegasus) spread-eagled what looked like a competitive

{Thursday, March 10, 2011} FINDING THE LONGSHOTS Betting on horse racing is a very intriguing venture into the world of gambling but over the years I have heard it all and seen it all, especially the phrase "how in the hell did that

{Monday, March 07, 2011} TURBULENT DESCENT TO SKIP KENTUCKY OAKS The winner of the Santa Anita Oaks is probably not coming to the Kentucky Oaks. The runner-up figures to be at Churchill Downs on May 6 in the country's top race for 3-year-old

{Sunday, March 06, 2011} Some Early Ultimatums They're running the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May this year, which means that it's 10 weeks off. But it's not too early to throw out 10 of the contenders, and I'm also going to

{Friday, March 04, 2011} JUGGLING JOCKEYS ON THE DERBY TRAIL Kentucky Derby prospects are like bacon. You can never have too much. Ramon Dominguez rode J P's Gusto to a second-place finish in the Southwest Stakes two weeks ago,

{Thursday, March 03, 2011} Twirling Candy the one to beat in Big 'Cap TWIRLING CANDY (Candy Ride [Arg]) has virtually done it all in a brief seven-race career, winning on all types of surfaces as well as major races around one turn and two.