Keeneland opens Friday; Major Derby Preps this Weekend
The 2017 Spring Meet at Keeneland begins Friday, April 7 and runs 15 days through April 28. MVP Rewards members will earn double MVP points on all tracked Keeneland wagers each Thursday, Friday, and Sunday of the meet on all races and all wagers. Opening day features the G3 Transylvania Stakes. On Saturday the Lexington, […]
Gulfstream Park featured in Saturday’s R2K Contest
Gulfstream Park will offer eight graded stakes races on Saturday’s card including the Fountain of Youth, an annual Kentucky Derby prep race. Canterbury’s free-to-enter contest, the $25,000 Road to Kentucky, will feature the entire Gulfstream card with the Fountain of Youth being a double-point race. Also in the mix as a double pointer is The […]
Big Week in Road to Kentucky
Many points were available in week 3 of the Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest as the featured track, Gulfstream Park, had a 12-race card and there were two additional double-point Derby prep bonus races. The unattainable perfect score was 3,811 so the expected winning score was in the 1,900-2,100 point range. There were two races […]
Week 3 of R2K Features Three Derby Preps
Last Saturday Tampa Bay Downs’ 10-race card was used for the $25,000 Road to Kentucky Contest as there were no Kentucky Derby prep races. The situation changes this Saturday as three preps will be run: Holy Bull at Gulfstream, Withers at Aqueduct, and Robert B. Lewis at Santa Anita. Gulfstream’s entire card will be the […]
R2K Week 1 in the Books, Detour to Tampa for Week 2
The annual Road to Kentucky Handicapping Tournament began with a bang when Apache Fog, at 59-1, ran second in the opening race at Fair Grounds, yielding 536 points to those entrants looking for a price. That however turned out to be the high-water mark as far as single race points go, as the remainder of […]
2017 Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest begins Saturday
The 20th annual Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest, with $25,000 in total prize money, begins Saturday. While much has changed in racing and handicapping over the past two decades, the basic focus of this free-to-enter contest has remained sharp. The emphasis is on 3-year-olds prepping for the Kentucky Derby and players getting rewarded for handicapping […]
Rubber Meets The Road
“….we were both half-crazy from too much whiskey, sun fatigue, culture shock, lack of sleep and general dissolution.” – Hunter S. Thompson We are firmly in deep stretch of the 2016 Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest. There is nothing like Derby week. The Kentucky Derby hopefuls are making their final preparations at Churchill Downs, but […]
Road to Kentucky Contest Week 15 Recap – Waiting for Derby Day
“Let’s get small.” – Steve Martin The contest track for Week 15 in the Road to Kentucky contest was Keeneland, but there was no double point bonus race as all the final prep races for the Kentucky Derby are complete. Scores will reflect this, as the maximum points available of 1,799 should translate to a […]
Defection from Derby Follows Week 14 of Road to Kentucky – Contest Recap
“Baffert Removes Cupid from Kentucky Derby Trail.” – Headline in the Daily Racing Form Week 14 in the Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest gave everyone an opportunity to pick up big points, as winning favorites were scarce throughout the day. Two heavily favored runners, Cupid and Swipe, headlined the double point bonus races and both […]
Road to Kentucky Week 13 Recap – What Did We Learn?
“Until last week, he’s drug me around the race track in 59 and change, 59 and change, 59 and change. Last week he went in 1:02. He finally turned off, finally let me ride, finally said ‘Aw, okay, you drive.’” – Kent Desormeaux, jockey aboard Exaggerator who won the Santa Anita Derby Santa Anita […]
