Road to Kentucky Contest Week 4 Recap –
“After Pharoah went, you sort of need something like this. It’s been like that with every good horse I’ve retired, you’re wanting some more.” – Bob Baffert, trainer of Robert B. Lewis Stakes winner Mor Spirit The Santa Anita contest card last Saturday included four graded stakes races, and featured the return of last year’s […]
Road to Kentucky Week 3 Recap
“It’s not what you lose when you lose; it’s what you win when you’re right.” – Paul Matties, National Handicapping Championship (NHC) winner 2016. From Miami to Las Vegas, it was a big weekend of action in the world of horse racing. Out east, the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Mohaymen, lived up to […]
Road to Kentucky Contest Week 2 Recap
“Yesterday is a place I don’t spend any time.” – Glenn Frey (1948-2016) Tampa Bay Downs was the featured track for week two of the Road to Kentucky contest. Weather in the northeast was a major factor last weekend, causing cancellations at several of the tracks located in that part of the country. Fortunately, Tampa […]
We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day
The Road to Kentucky 2016 “Turn and face the strange.” – David Bowie The annual Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest starts this Saturday, January 16. Under the premise “you can never have too much of a good thing,” Canterbury Park has expanded the contest to 17 weeks this year. The rules and contest dates can […]
Winter Dreams The Same Dream Every Time
Now that winter is officially underway and the holidays will quickly come and go, horse players can turn their attention to the Kentucky Derby and the bevy of 3-year-old races that appear on the calendar beginning in January. Before that however is opening day at Santa Anita (and Hialeah for the Q players) on Saturday, […]
Your Chance for Free Money Saturday
The free-to-enter Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest continues Saturday with Fair Grounds being the contest track. Post time and contest entry deadline is 12:30 pm. The double-point Derby prep race is the Risen Star, race 11 on the 12-race program. An additional double-point race, the Fountain of Youth, race 11 at Gulfstream Park, is also […]
The Road to Kentucky Week 5 Recap
“This is Metaboss’ coming out party.” – Matt Bernier, Player Development Handicapper for Daily Racing Form, analyzing the El Camino Real on the DRF Players’ Podcast. The Road to Kentucky contest moved north last week from Santa Anita to Golden Gate Fields. The featured derby prep race was the El Camino Real. The Golden Gate […]
Fair Grounds : the start of the Road to Kentucky Contest
Saturday’s entries for Fair Ground‘s 12-race program have been drawn. Those 12 races comprise the first contest in the annual $30,000 Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest series at Canterbury. First post Saturday (and contest entry deadline) is 12:30 p.m. Each week there is $1,350 in prize money to be given away to the top five […]
King of the Road
Congratulations to the 2014 Road to Kentucky champion Steve Hennen, who prevailed over runner-up Richard Carlson by more than 800 points after posting a final week score of 1,452 points. Mr. Hennen was strong in this contest from start to finish, posting a 2nd place finish in Week 3, a 4th place finish in Week […]
Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
The pace picks back up in the Road to Kentucky contest this week, as the preps stack up and the action for older horses takes center stage half a world away. Meydan Racecourse celebrates the Dubai World Cup bright and early this Saturday, and our Clubhouse will open at 7:30 AM. First post for the […]