KENTUCKY — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race: $350,000 Beaumont Stakes (G3T) Date: Sunday, April 13 (Race 8, 4:44 pm ET) What to do with a $20 Bet: $10 win and $10 place on #10 Just a Care (IRE) The Reason: Don’t love the outside post, but do love the solid form,...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   A Worthy Endeavour Where’s My Ring isn’t just a question Chris Paul asks himself in the mirror, it’s also the name of the 4-year-old filly with the best chance to dethrone Thorpedo Anna in Saturday’s $1.25 million Apple Blossom (G1) at Oaklawn...

NEW MEXICO — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race: $200,000 Sunland Park Handicap. One And One Eighth Miles. For Three Year Olds And Upward Date: Sunday, April 6 (Race 11, 6:35 p.m. ET ) What to do with a $20 Bet : $10 win on #5 Blue Devil $5 exactor box #4 Mine That Star and...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Blue Chip Blue Grass A $750,000 top prize and up to 200 Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points are up for grabs this Tuesday in the $1.25 million Blue Grass (G1) at Keeneland. While heavy rains moved Keeneland’s bustling Saturday card to...

ARKANSAS — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  $200,000 Hot Springs Stakes, Three Year Olds, One Mile   Date: Sunday, March 30 (Race 7, 4:45 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet: $20 win on Perfect Force   The Reason: Perfect Force has been just that over his...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Take My Hand Sandman enters Saturday’s $1.5 million Arkansas Derby (G1) hoping to break through at the graded level. Taking to Oaklawn Park, the site of his last three starts and two of four graded stakes attempts, Enter Sandman has made...

FLORIDA — By Ed DeRosa   The Sport of Kings is a gambling game, so we’re going to do some gambling on the Kentucky Derby prep races on Saturday. I am introducing it in this way because neither of our wagers will rely on the obvious favorites in either of the Florida or...

NEW ORLEANS — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race: $52,000 Maiden Special Weight. One And One Sixteenth Miles. (Turf). For Maidens, Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward.   Date: Sunday, March 23rd (Race 8, 5:15 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet: $10 win, $5...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Keep Those Options Open Let’s try this again… In last week’s edition of WOT, we wrote about undefeated colt John Hancock’s prospects of remaining perfect in the $500,000 Virginia Derby. But, as we all know, plans change. The Brad Cox charge...

NEW ORLEANS — By Ed DeRosa   When it comes to handicapping the Jeff Ruby Steaks as part of the Kentucky Derby Championship Series, I sort of have two picks on the line Saturday at Turfway Park. Poster is the first horse running in a Kentucky Derby prep that I am not only...