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Gorg’s Oscar Line and Road to Kentucky Week 4 Recap

The 86th Academy Awards will be held this Sunday and Kevin Gorg, a film authority with an at-the-theater movie viewing average of 1.65 per week, shares his Best Picture odds again this year. The general consensus and favorite on the European sports books is 12 Years A Slave. Gorg agrees and makes it his 3/5 […]

Hermann to Make History

Racing fans know her as the vivacious woman in the paddock, dispensing information with the rapid-fire delivery of a Gatling gun. She can overwhelm the cerebral senses with a volley of facts and details that roll off her tongue with the authority and understanding of someone who knows her stuff inside and out. Right or […]

Canchari Wins 5

Jockey races are often of more interest to the people who keep statistics and record the data on such things at racetracks. Riders, for their part, are more interested in staying healthy and collecting a healthy paycheck. But not entirely… The competitive side of any rider is apt to show when a title is on […]

Road to Kentucky, Angela at Hawthorne & More

The $30,000 Road to Kentucky Tournament continues Saturday at Golden Gate Fields. The double point bonus race Derby prep is the $200,000 G3 El Camino Real. Post time is 2:45pm for the nine-race card and entries to this free contest are due before that. Only three of the nine entered in the El Camino Real […]

Remembering Dark Star

On the morning before the 144th running of the Belmont Stakes, the racing community at Canterbury Park said goodbye and paid its respects to a man who would not only have been present but at his boisterous best if fate had not intervened. There was after all the disappointing defection of a horse pointed toward […]