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How Pace Points Helped Decode the Harlan’s Holiday Stakes

POSTED: December 21, 2025

Skippylongstockings proves best in the 2025 Harlan’s Holiday, Gulfstream Photo James Gazzale Pace Points is designed to rank horses relative to the field in two...

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Wolfie’s Dynaghost Shatters Record In Fort Lauderdale (G3) Win

POSTED: December 21, 2025

Wolfie’s Dynaghost takes the Fort Lauderdale, Gulfstream Photo Gulfstream Park Press HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Woodslane Farm’s millionaire homebred gelding Wolfie’s Dynaghost, in the best form...

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Banned on Paper, But Not in Practice? The CAW Question Racing Can’t Ignore

POSTED: December 13, 2025

Are CAWs in the pools they are supposedly banned from? That is a big question in my view — and not because I think tracks...

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2026 Kentucky Derby Radar, Episode 1

POSTED: December 12, 2025

Further Ado earns Kentucky derby points at Churchill Downs, Jenny Doyle, Past the Wire Episode 1 in what promises to be a great Kentucky Derby...

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Better Late Than Never: NYRA Finally Draws a Line on CAW

POSTED: December 10, 2025

A Little Can Mean a Lot in Horse Racing My Symposium Take on the CAW Issues There are plenty of things I’ll take a racetrack to...

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Charting: The Lost—and Maybe Rediscovered—Art Behind the Tote Board

POSTED: December 10, 2025

A Late Odds and Price Drop Theory This is not the first time I have written and talked about Charting. Horseplayers love to romanticize the...

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Trust Us and Just Bet

POSTED: December 8, 2025

Nothing Is on the Level: The View From Someone Who’s Played the Game and Beat It I never went to that Arizona Racing Symposium despite...

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Just Beat the Odds makes graded debut in G3 Elite Power

POSTED: December 1, 2025

Elite Power, Namesake of the G3 Elite Power, Ernie Belmonte/Past The Wire Photo Christian Abdo Donna Wright’s Just Beat the Odds is set to make...

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Bishops Bay goes for graded double in G2 Cigar Mile H.

POSTED: November 30, 2025

Bishops Bay, Joe Labozzetta Photo Mary Eddy KAS Stables’ recently-acquired Bishops Bay will look to double up on graded wins at Aqueduct Racetrack when taking...

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