{Thursday, June 30, 2011} CHURCHILL SATURDAY PREVIEW SUM OF THE PARTS (Speightstown), a convincing winner in his lone career start, heads a field of 11 two-year-olds in Saturday's 110th running of the $100,000 Bashford Manor S. (G3) at Churchill

{Monday, June 27, 2011} BELMONT PARK REPORT AVA K. STAYS PERFECT Different stakes, same result as Ava K. captured the $98,000 Bouwerie for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Belmont Park. On June 3, Ava K. beat

{Sunday, June 26, 2011} GIANTS PLAY WINS NY STAKES Giants Play took advantage of an unpressured lead in the early going and had just enough to hold off Zagora to notch her first stakes victory in the $150,000 New York Stakes (gr. IIT) June

{Friday, June 24, 2011} Win Big in the Home Stretch of Belmont's Spring/Summer Meet By Noel Michaels - OTB Learning Labs More than half of the Belmont Park spring/summer meet is in the books, but there are still

{Thursday, June 23, 2011} HORSES TO WATCH IN NEW YORK Just over four weeks remain until the July 22 opening of the Saratoga Thoroughbred meet. That means it is time to ratchet up observation of Belmont Park races and horses which could prove

{Monday, June 20, 2011} Kinda Spicy debuts a winner for Albertrani Trainer Tom Albertrani had high expectations for KINDA SPICY (A.P. Indy), and the Darley Stable homebred did not disappoint in Sunday's 4TH race at Belmont Park, coming

{Sunday, June 19, 2011} BLIND LUCK WINS VANITY HANDICAP Midway through Saturday’s $250,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park, jockey Garrett Gomez glanced in front of him to check the margins between his mount, Blind Luck, and Switch,

{Thursday, June 16, 2011} VANITY HANDICAP PREVIEW Switch is a multiple Grade 1 winner at seven furlongs, a graded stakes winner at 1 1/16 miles, and nearly won a Grade 1 over 1 1/8 earlier this year. The 4-year-old filly can seemingly do

{Wednesday, June 15, 2011} HISTORIC PICK-6 CARRYOVER GOES WEDENSDAY AT BELMONT Ruler On Ice’s 24-1 upset in Saturday’s 143rd running of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes helped trigger a $1,130,718 Pick 6 carryover into Wednesday’s card at Belmont Park,

{Sunday, June 12, 2011} C.S. SILK CONTROLS THE PACE IN JUST A GAME In what trainer Dale Romans was hoping was a preview of coming attractions, C. S. Silk scored a front-running victory at Belmont Park on Saturday in the Grade 1, $400,000

{Thursday, June 09, 2011} USING ANGLES AND TRENDS TO BET THE 2011 BELMONT STAKES By Noel Michaels The 2011 Belmont Stakes lacks the drama of a Triple Crown bid, but it does have the next-best thing -the star power of a re-match between the

{Monday, June 06, 2011} MUCHO MACHO BLAZES IN WORKOUT The current crop of 3-year-olds has been called a bad bunch - 'slow' and 'mediocre' are words you often hear -- but even the critics must admit this: Some of them are tough as nails. Consider

{Sunday, June 05, 2011} HILDA'S PASSION WINS VAGRANCY Hilda's Passion reasserted herself as one of the leaders of the filly and mare sprint division with an authoritative, front-running 5 1/4-length victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000

{Friday, June 03, 2011} VAGRANCY HANDICAP GOES SATURDAY Hilda’s Passion goes for her fifth stakes win Saturday as she heads a field of seven fillies and mares in the Grade 2, $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park. The 4-year-old Canadian

{Thursday, June 02, 2011} A WIDE-OPEN HORSE OF THE YEAR RACE Who do you think would be voted 2011 Horse of the Year if the election were held today? My feeling is it probably would be Animal Kingdom based on his victories in the Kentucky