For the eighth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2024 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big-Race Showdown.”
Breeders’ Cup Fantastic Finishes: Awesome Again Defeats ‘Best of the Best’
There was no shortage of superlatives tossed around before, during, and after the 1998 edition of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and for good reason. “Best field I’ve ever seen,” Seth Hancock, president of Claiborne Farm on co-owner of one of the 10 Classic runners (Arch), told BloodHorse before the race. “You put up the money and you are going to get the best of the best.”
Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Friday, August 16
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Newbury, Epsom Downs, Thirsk, Newmarket and Wolverhampton.
Why Buchu Can Spring an Upset in the Del Mar Oaks
The Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Oaks presented by Keeneland Sales Saturday, Aug. 15 at Del Mar brings together a nice field of eight fillies running 1 1/8 miles on grass with three last-out stakes winners and four others that have won or placed in stakes in one of their last two races.
