It’s Championship Saturday! Look, I don’t care who you are, if you’re alive and breathing you need to be playing along in the Pick 4 and Pick 6 pools at Santa Anita today. We’ve got 9 championship races - from the Marathon to the Classic. I won’t be giving out a “caveman”...

“Ladies’ Day” at Santa Anita was exactly what the organizers of the Breeders’ Cup wanted. The two stars of the day, Zenyatta and Stardom Bound, did were as advertised, romping to victory in the Ladies’ Classic and the Juvenile Fillies, respectively. Zenyatta runs away with...

Here it is - the Breeders’ Cup Classic!!! Perhaps never before in it’s storied history has the Breeders’ Cup Classic been shrouded in so much mystery. This is obviously due in large part to this year’s running being the first conducted over a synthetic surface. We all know the...

The Breeders’ Cup Turf - finally we get a solid turf race for the year here in the United States! It’s been a somewhat down year in North America for turf racing overall. Luckily we’ve got horses coming into this one from the better turf races thus far, including the Sword Dance, the...

Finally, we’re in the home stretch! As we wind down into the final races of the Breeders’ Cup championship weekend we next land on the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Nine horses will be headed into the gate, including last year’s sprint champion Midnight Lute. I really like Street Boss...

I feel like every time I turn around here it’s either Juvies or turf - each the bane of my handicapping existence. This one appears to be another race that we can go multiple directions in. I’ll tell you right off the bat that I’m having a tough time separating Bittle Road, Westphalia...

As we roll right along through the Breeders’ Cup races for Saturday at Santa Anita, we find ourselves next posed with the prospect of picking the best “baby.” Which 2-year-old will win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and follow in the steps of recent winners such as War Pass and Street...

Onward to the Breeders’ Cup Mile! Here we have 11 horses running, not ironically, one mile over the turf at Santa Anita. Morning line favoritism has been attached to the impressive Euro filly Goldikova who will be gunning for 4 consecutive victories dating back to July 6th of this year. Goldikova...

Isn’t it a fallacy to call this the “dirt mile?” Shouldn’t it be the “synthetic mile?” Or perhaps the “Pro-Ride mile?” Something just feels wrong calling this a “dirt” race when the only dirt in the area will be the familiar black grime that...

The Turf Sprint! Well, you know one thing is for sure. When it comes to turf sprinting I’ll have a shaky opinion. Thankfully it looks like they are expecting the rest of the public to be in the same boat as our morning line favorite is a less than confident 9/2 on Get Funky. You [...]