In case you hadn’t heard, there’s an enormous carry over at Hollywood Park of $1,197,009 thanks to a deluge of long-shots yesterday during the July 4 card. Today’s racing action features to be a bit more formful with several high profile stakes races on the card - and could be a juicy...

First and foremost happy 4th of July to everyone. It looks like we’ve got a good day of racing action in store at Hollywood Park as we fire up the grills and get the family ready for late evening fireworks. Speaking of fireworks, lets see if we can hit some of our own prior to [...]

Things are little different at Hollywood Park this week thanks to the upcoming July 4th holiday on Friday. Night racing has been moved to Thursday while the Friday card will feature an afternoon post time. We’ve got 8 races this evening as you get ready for your holiday tomorrow. Race 1: Md 4000...

The older male division of thoroughbred horse racing took yet another unexpected turn with the announcement of Heatseeker’s retirement on Tuesday. The colt had been scratched from the Hollywood Gold Cup last weekend due to ankle fillings. The announcement regarding his retirement took many by surprise...

As the work week approaches and the weekend comes to a close, I thought I’d share a couple of tidbits courtesy of Ron Correll over at Tracksideview.com that I found rather interesting. Source: http://articles.tracksideview.com/2008/06/28/what-do-you-have-to-say.aspx Ron and company are looking...

Early speed, early speed, early speed. How many times do we need to see it? Mast Track put on another lesson for handicappers by wiring what appeared to be a highly competitive field of older horses in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup on Saturday as a 10-1 longshot. I had pointed out in the day’s...

Saturday was supposed to be a chance to showcase the talents of one of the best older horses in the country, Heatseeker, in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup.  Instead, the heavy favorite has scratched, leaving the field a bit more wide open.  Racing fans should still be treated to one of the stars of the...

Sources: http://horseracing.sportsline.com/cbs/headlines/showarticle.aspx?articleId=28579 http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/8282964/Jockey-Rose-suspended-for-6-months It’s been an eventful week for thoroughbred horse racing fans. High ranking people involved in the sport from CEO Alex...

Photos are now being posted at ESPN showing that Big Brown, the 3-year-old son of Boundary that took a run at the Triple Crown earlier this year, may have been running with a loose shoe during the Belmont. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/gallery/enlargePhoto?id=3457690&story=3456907 Rumor of the photos...

You’ve probably been wondering where I disappeared to since Saturday night? Well, let’s just say that the wife and I got a brief reprieve from our role as parents as my folks took our son for a few nights. Obviously blogging wasn’t much of a priority during out respite. Alas, the time...