Happy Belmont day… We are a neck away from being undefeated through two races of the triple crown, thanks to a smashing victory by Napoleon Solo in the Preakness. Let’s keep the momentum going and try to pad the bankroll in the Belmont Stakes, and in the process, extend our Belmont winning streak to 3 […]
Tough luck for blog followers in the Derby as Renegade came up a head short. We will try to turn the agony of defeat in the Derby into a victory in the Preakness !!!! We have a full field of 14 horses signed on for the race, with no clear-cut favorite. This means if you […]
Welcome to Derby 152 !!! My overall take on this year’s Derby is….ITS WIDE OPEN. We will have 3 or 4 horses battling for favoritism in the 5-1 to 7-1 range. Overall, Looks like a fantastic betting race, with no clear-cut favorite. The 5 horses that will vie for favoritism are: Renegade, Commandment, Chief Wallabee, […]
The Belmont Stakes returns to Saratoga for the 2nd year in a row while Belmont Park gets a face lift, which means the distance is shortened to one and a quarter miles instead of the normal mile and a half. Here is your Belmont Stakes rundown: Weather There is a chance rain will linger into […]
****Undercard plays at the bottom**** With Sovereignty out, looks like a watered-down Preakness again this year and its obvious a change is needed to the structure of the Triple Crown as horses need more than 2 weeks’ turnaround time. We will hope for change in the years to come and perhaps the traditionalists will finally […]
Welcome to Derby 151 !!!! I think we all know the derby is a complete crapshoot and now we are adding another wildcard into the mix with the weather and the uncertain track condition. The forecast has been wrong all week so maybe they will be wrong again and the track will be dry or […]
2024 belmont stakes picks
Looks like we have another watered-down Preakness field and if we are looking at this objectively, it is not a great betting race. Muth was the ML favorite and he is SCRATCHED. Along with his defection, the pace should be slower. The only speed horses left in the field are the Baffert horse, Imagination, and […]
Past Derby’s offer a window into lessons learned. In the 2018 Derby, I had some degree of confidence that Justify and Good Magic would finish 1-2 but really had no idea on who would round out the 3rd and 4th spots. I took a “SUPER” stab that day with Instilled Regard as a huge longshot […]
As of this writing, we are more than 3 weeks out from Derby 2024 and I am taking a different approach with an early post for this year’s Derby. Primarily, the change in tactics is due to the fact that I have already made up my mind on the race, as there are two standouts […]
