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The Friday Show Presented By Woodbine: Looking Forward To The 2020 Queen’s Plate

This has been a racing season like no other, with numerous graded stakes races rescheduled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. American racing saw its centerpiece classic delayed from the first Saturday in May to the first Saturday in September, and this weekend, Canada will finally get to experience the 161st Queen's Plate. There will be no spectators at Woodbine, and fans are encouraged to enjoy the Queen's Plate at home with a variety of social media content leading into the broadcast of the race.

The Queen's Plate is the oldest continuously-run horse race in North America, run at 1 1/4 miles for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

Paulick Report news editor Chelsea Hackbarth hosts this week's Friday Show, and brought in multiple Sovereign Award-winning writer and handicapper Jennifer Morrison to learn more about the importance of the Queen's Plate to Canadian racing. They'll also give you a rundown of their favorite standouts in this year's field.

Watch the Friday Show below.

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PR Special Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase: Looking Back On The Turf Showcase Three Years Later

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The major yearling season kicks off today at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase Sale, and the Paulick Report has the reading material you need in the PR Special.

If a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale in September feels like déjà vu, one needs to look back just three years to the Fasig-Tipton Turf Showcase for the last time it happened. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills took a horse-by-horse look back at the unique sale's graduates, and where they stand today in the middle of their 4-year-old seasons. For a sale relatively small in population, the Turf Showcase's reach has proven to be global.

In today's Stallion Spotlight, Shadwell Farm's Kent Barnes discusses Mohaymen, a son of Tapit whose first foals are yearlings of 2020 and hitting the September sales for the first time this week. Dr. Brad Tanner of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital goes over the importance of having a veterinarian perform dental work on your horse in Ask Your Veterinarian, then we look at the emerging stallions in the Selected Yearlings Showcase in Second & Third Crop Sire Watch.

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PR Special Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Showcase: Cannizzo On Growning The Brand In New York Breeding

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An unprecedented auction season rolls into more uncharted territory this week with the newly-formed Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Showcase Sale, and the Paulick Report is on it with the latest edition of the PR Special newsletter.

The Selected Yearling Showcase kicks off Wednesday with an offering of New York-breds, representing a program that has some significant proposed changes to its breeding rules on the horizon. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills has a detailed Q&A with New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. executive director Jeffrey Cannizzo about the proposed rule changes, and how they stand to help grow the New York-bred program.

The Stallion Spotlight focuses on the reliable Midshipman, with comments from Darley's Darren Fox. Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance runs down what a buyer needs to have in order for proper coverage ahead of the sales in the latest Ask Your Insurer, and Ray Paulick looks at Social Paranoia's road from the yearling sales ring to the Kentucky Downs winner's circle in Honor Roll. Finally, we look at the rookies in the catalog in First-Crop Sire Watch.

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Beat Ray: There Is No ‘I’ In Team Rotondo

It's been a fun couple of months but all good things must end.

This weekend marks the final edition of the Beach Boss competition as the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club meet concludes on the traditional Labor Day finale on Monday.

Today's Beat Ray challenger is Peter Rotondo, the vice president of media and entertainment for the Breeders' Cup, which will be returning to the seaside track for the two-day championships in 2021. More importantly, he's a member of Team Rotondo, whose exploits at the betting windows at various racetracks were chronicled in the cable television reality series “Horseplayers” a few years ago.

I imagine Peter is calling in all favors from his teammates, including his father, Peter Rotondo Sr., the senior member of the team, to sift through Sunday's contest race, the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby, in hopes of finding the winning play. He's not too proud to ask for help, since there is no “I” in Team Rotondo.

Peter will join fellow handicapper Michelle Yu and me on Sunday at 11 a.m. PT on Del Mar's social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) to handicap this challenging mile and one-eighth turf race that drew a dozen entries (though No. 7, Warren's Showtime, one of three fillies entered against males, has been scratched). Tune in to hear our handicapping strategies and bets for the contest.

Beat Ray Everyday is an online contest offered every racing day of the Del Mar summer meet. It's free to play and you can sign up here. Bet a mythical $100 each day on the selected contest race in win, place or show bets on any horse or horses. At the end of the meet, the player with the highest bankroll from those wagers becomes the “Beach Boss” and wins two VIP tickets to the 2021 Breeders' Cup at Del Mar. Other prizes are available to top finishers and anyone who finishes ahead of me is entered in a drawing for even more prizes.

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