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DRF Bets Customers Now Eligible For Free Formulator Data From Daily Racing Form

Daily Racing Form, the leader in horse racing data and news in North America, is offering its premium data product – Formulator – for free, starting Jan. 18.

This marks the first time that Formulator will be available at no cost. Formulator is the most powerful handicapping tool in the sport, allowing horseplayers to access the most advanced interactive features when analyzing horse races. Access to free Formulator data will be exclusively available to customers playing the races on DRF Bets, Daily Racing Form's betting website and app. Players receive a free Formulator card for each $50 wagered on DRF Bets.

“We are thrilled to offer our most powerful data product for free for the first time ever,” said Itay Fisher, DRF's chief executive officer. “We ultimately want to help our customers win more playing the races and believe that providing access to the authoritative handicapping product can do just that. Industry leaders and professional horseplayers consider Formulator to be an invaluable tool in their handicapping arsenal, and we are elated to offer this to our DRF Bets members.”

Formulator past performances, launched in 2000, are interactive, allowing horseplayers to customize and sort data fields. Filters can be applied to display lifetime past performances, workouts, trainer patterns, and more. In addition, race replays, full race charts, and pedigree statistics – including lifetime past performances for sires, dams, and siblings – are available via a single click. Formulator users also can enter notes on horses, races, and cards. Formulator was redesigned in 2020 to make it mobile optimized.

For those players who were already using DRF Bets, earned credits are now redeemable for either Formulator or Classic past performances.

For more information and further offers, click here.

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Smile Happy Tops Individual Options Ahead Of Second Kentucky Derby Future Wager

Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”) is set to open at noon Friday with the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” tabbed as the heavy 7-5 morning line favorite.

The second of five pools for the KDFW will run for three days through Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. Bettors can place win and exacta wagers at simulcast outlets throughout the country and online at TwinSpires.com, the official ADW of Churchill Downs Incorporated.

Like in Pool 1, the KDFW pools assumes that horses under the care of trainers suspended from competing in the 2022 Kentucky Derby will not be under consideration.

Lucky Seven Stable's $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (Grade 2) winner Smile Happy was installed as the 8-1 individual Pool 2 favorite by morning line oddsmaker Mike Battaglia. Trained by Kenny McPeek, Smile Happy is based at Gulfstream Park in South Florida and has been steadily working toward his 3-year-old debut. Smile Happy is one of four McPeek-trained colts in Pool 2. The others are Dash Attack (20-1), Rattle N Roll (30-1) and Tiz the Bomb (20-1).

In Pool 1, Smile Happy closed as the 8-1 individual favorite behind “All Other Colts and Geldings,” who was the odds-on 3-5 betting choice. Total handle for the Nov. 25-28 KDFW pool was $326,448 ($263,008 in the Win pool and $63,440 in Exactas), which was up 30.9 percent from last year's $249,331.

Here's the complete Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 field (with trainer and morning line odds): #1 Chasing Time (Steve Asmussen, 20-1); #2 Classic Causeway (Brian Lynch, 30-1); #3 Commandperformance (Todd Pletcher, 50-1); #4 Courvoisier (Kelly Breen, 30-1); #5 Dash Attack (McPeek, 20-1); #6 Emmanuel (Pletcher, 50-1); #7 Epicenter (Asmussen, 15-1); #8 Giant Game (Dale Romans, 30-1); #9 High Oak (Bill Mott, 50-1); #10 Jack Christopher (Chad Brown, 10-1); #11 Major General (Pletcher, 50-1); #12 Make It Big (Saffie Joseph Jr., 50-1); #13 Mo Donegal (Pletcher, 12-1); #14 Pappacap (Mark Casse, 20-1); #15 Rattle N Roll (McPeek, 30-1); #16 Simplification (Antonio Sano, 30-1); #17 Slow Down Andy (Doug O'Neill, 15-1); #18 Smile Happy (McPeek, 8-1); #19 Tiz the Bomb (McPeek, 20-1); #20 Trafalgar (Al Stall Jr., 50-1); #21 Varatti (Pletcher, 50-1); #22 White Abarrio (Joseph, 50-1); #23 Zandon (Brown, 12-1); and #24 “All Other 3-Year-Olds” (7-5).

The pari-mutuel field for the first pool of the New Year has closed as the bettors' choice every year since the wager was inaugurated in 1999, and the final odds were 5-2 in five of the last seven years.

There are nine new individual interests from Pool 1 in the KDFW. They are first-level allowance winner Chasing Time; Jerome winner Courvoisier; Smarty Jones winner Dash Attack; debut maiden winner Emmanuel; Saratoga Special winner High Oak; Remington Springboard Mile winner Make It Big; Mucho Macho Man winner Simplification; Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) winner Slow Down Andy; and Kentucky Jockey Club third White Abarrio.

The Kentucky Derby Future Wagers provide fans of Thoroughbred racing with opportunities to place bets on possible entrants in the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) at odds that could be far greater and more attractive than those available on the day of the race. The 148th running of Kentucky Derby, America's greatest race and the first leg of the Triple Crown, is set for Saturday, May 7 at Churchill Downs.

There are no refunds in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Should Churchill Downs officials determine during the duration of this week's four-day pool that one of the wagering interests has experienced an injury, illness or other circumstance that would prevent the horse from participating in the Kentucky Derby, betting on the individual horse will be suspended immediately.

The other Future Wager dates are set for Feb. 11-13 (Pool 3), March 11-13 (Pool 4) and March 31-April 2 (Pool 5). The lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will coincide with Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 4 on March 11-13.

More information, Brisnet.com past performances and real-time odds on the Kentucky Derby Future Wager will be available before the pool opens Friday online at https://www.kentuckyderby.com/wager/future-wager.

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Mahoning Valley Cancels Tuesday Races; Moving Card To Friday

Due to the lingering effects of winter storm Izzy, Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course in Austintown, Ohio, will be moving its live racing card scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 18, to Friday, Jan. 21, with a first race post time of 12:45 p.m. ET.

In the interim, live racing is scheduled to resume Wednesday, Jan. 19, with a first race post time of 12:45 p.m. The simulcast theater will remain open for wagering on Tuesday.

Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course typically races Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with a first race post time of 12:45 p.m. and Saturday with a first race post time of 12:15 p.m.

The 2022 Winter/Spring race meet dates run Jan. 1, 2022-April 16, 2022, following the same Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday format.

Operated by Penn National Gaming, Inc., Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course is conveniently located off Ohio State Route 46 and is open 24 hours daily. The 25,000 square foot gaming facility features VLT machines and live horse racing which includes a one-mile thoroughbred racetrack featuring track-view grandstand seats and a state-of-the-art simulcast theater where patrons can wager every day on races at tracks throughout North America.

Dining and entertainment options include Take 2 Grill, Skybox Sports Bar, Harlan's Holiday, Trackside, and H Lounge. For more information, visit http://www.hollywoodmahoningvalley.com.

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Winter Storm Forces Cancellations At Mahoning Valley, Laurel Monday

Due to winter storm Izzy, which is anticipated to bring over a foot of snow to the region, live racing on Monday, Jan. 17, at Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course has been cancelled. Live racing at the Austintown, Ohio, track is scheduled to resume Tuesday, Jan. 18, with a first race post time of 12:45 p.m. ET. The simulcast theater will remain open.

Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course races Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with a first race post time of 12:45 p.m. and Saturday with a first race post time of 12:15 p.m. The 2022 Winter/Spring race meet dates run Jan. 1, 2022-April 16, 2022, following the same Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday format.

The Maryland Jockey Club canceled also Monday's special 10-race Martin Luther King Jr. holiday program due to lingering effects of a winter storm that brought snow, sleet and freezing rain to the region overnight.

Laurel, Rosecroft Raceway and the MJC OTB Network remain open for simulcasting.

Live racing is scheduled to return to Laurel with a 10-race program Thursday, Jan. 20. Race 3 is a maiden special weight for fillies and mares ages 4 and 5 sprinting 5 ½ furlongs that includes first-time starters from trainers Brittany Russell, Michael Merryman, Jose Corrales and a pair from Dale Bennett.

First race post time is 12:10 p.m.

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