By Jarrod Horak The Grade 3, $300,000 Sycamore Stakes will be run at Keeneland on Friday, October 11, 2024. The eleven entrants will travel 1 1/2 miles on the turf course and 3-1 morning line favorite Bold Act won this race in 2023 and will try to work out a trip from the outside post under […]
By Jarrod Horak There is a chance of rain for each of the four days of the Belmont Stakes Festival at Saratoga. The rain is mostly scattered and the forecast for Saturday is mostly cloudy with a 20% chance of rain. If the track is wet, which horses will handle the footing? Seize the Grey […]
2024 Kentucky Derby Contender Dornoch Current Rank Total Points Earned Earnings Trainer 8 75 $323,136 Danny Gargan _______________________________________________________________________________ Dornoch’s Prep Race that earned their highest Final Time Rating (FNL RAT) Race Date: 3/2/2024 Track: Gulfstream Park Race #: 14 Distance: 8.5 Furlongs Conditions: stakes Surface: Dirt Trainer: Danny Gargan Jockey: Luis Saez […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Derby 2024 continues at Keeneland on Saturday, April 6, and I have included Blue Grass Stakes 2024 picks below. The Grade 1 event for 3-year-olds has a $1 million purse and the eleven entrants will be journeying 1 1/8 miles on the main track. The Blue Grass is […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Oaks 2024 continues at Keeneland on Friday, April 5, and I have included Ashland Stakes 2024 picks below. The Grade 1 event for 3-year-old fillies has a $600,000 purse and the eight entrants will be journeying 1 1/16 miles on the main track. The Ashland Stakes is the […]
Dornoch edges Sierra Leone in 2023 Remsen Stakes (Joe Labozzetta Photo) By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Derby 2024 continues at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, March 2, and I have included Fountain of Youth Stakes 2024 picks below. The Grade 2 event for 3-year-olds has a $400,000 purse and the nine entrants will be […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Derby 2024 continues at Fair Grounds on Saturday, January 20, and I have included Lecomte Stakes 2024 picks below. The Grade 3 event for 3-year-olds has a $200,000 purse and the eight entrants will be journeying 1 1/16 on the main track. The Lecomte is the 13th race […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Oaks 2024 continues at Fair Grounds on Saturday, January 20, and I have included Silverbulletday Stakes 2024 picks below. The non-graded event for 3-year-old fillies has a $150,000 purse and the eight entrants will be journeying a mile and seventy yards on the main track. The Silverbulletday is […]
Four year old gelding for Mark Glatt, who he had just claimed for $50K four weeks ago, was in for the second allowance condition in Sunday’s 3rd at a mile on the infield turf course. Off at 12/1 in a field of 9, he broke well and sat third down the back side, some 5 […]
By Jarrod Horak We saw some impressive efforts in the stakes ranks at Saratoga for the week ending August 13. There were at least three performances worthy of blue-ribbon status, and I decided to go with Carl Spackler (IRE) as the star of the week. Chad Brown’s emerging stakes star made the grade in the […]
