Crist Blog With Steven Crist

Dinner Root
Jul 05 2008, 07:08 PM

Have to take the family to dinner, so I'm taping the last three from Hollywood, where I'm alive.. . Read More...

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Holiday Carryover Live
Jul 04 2008, 04:05 PM

4:01 pm: I'll have a pretty good idea what kind of shape I'm in after the first leg of the double-carryover... Read More...

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Holiday Lineup
Jul 03 2008, 11:14 AM

There are 16 graded stakes at four tracks over the three-day holiday weekend, including seven sprints and six... Read More...

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Mother Goose Justice?
Jun 30 2008, 11:44 AM

Should the determing factor in disqualifying a horse be a)whether a foul was committeed or b)whether the foul affected the order of finish? Read More...

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Tick Tock
Jun 27 2008, 09:29 PM

Saturday's Sixty Minute Six at Bel/Mth/Del/Pha/Bel/Del, with a $65k carryover from last Saturday's inaugural running, is all yours.... Read More...

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Bad Rap Sheet?
Jun 25 2008, 07:35 PM

By now you've doubtless read somewhere about trainer Rick Dutrow's "72 citations for offenses" or his "72 separate rules violations".... Read More...

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Prize Package
Jun 22 2008, 02:29 PM

Not that I did, but one could have turned that $109.50 pick-4 into an $11,398 pick-6 if you had prefaced the last four winners with... Read More...

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Fun With Penetrometers
Jun 20 2008, 01:46 AM

Ever wonder just how "yielding" a turf course really was, especially when the time of the race was fast? American grass courses are rated... Read More...

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Another Legislative Disgrace
Jun 17 2008, 01:09 PM

The bill passed Monday by state legislators will raise the parimutuel takeout on New York races by one percent beginning Sept. 14, an unnecessary and punitive increase... Read More...

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6 of 6: $48.00
Jun 15 2008, 12:09 AM

Sometimes the best bets are the ones you don't make -- like Saturday's all-stakes pick-6 on the Foster card at Churchill Downs. Read More...

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Twilight Time
Jun 13 2008, 12:34 PM

Go back to bed -- not just because it's Friday the 13th but because first post at Belmont today isn't until 3 p.m. ET, the first of six... Read More...

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El Gran Carryover
Jun 11 2008, 02:31 PM

2:51 pm: Second choice My Dinah($6.90) kept the whole world alive for at least one leg, running down 7-5 Love Co in upper stretch and drawing away from 33-1 Aly's Colors. Love Co blazed the first quarter in a crazy 22.52 under Prado... Read More....

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Undercard Heroics
Jun 10 2008, 03:37 PM

The Belmont Stakes aside, there was some very competitive and high-quality racing at Belmont Saturday on what was the best overall day of racing... Read More...

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Unfishy
Jun 09 2008, 04:32 PM

Could all those who keep insisting the Belmont Stakes payoffs were so fishy that the fix was in please remove their aluminum chapeaux and consider the following realities... Read More...

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Brownout
Jun 08 2008, 03:05 PM

This was not a Belmont where a worthy rival close in ability stepped up his game and ran the better race, a la Easy Goer, Touch Gold, Victory Gallop or Empire Maker... Read More...

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