TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   We’re Live in 5, 4, 3…   Breaking news out of Hot Springs, Arkansas as veteran mare Corningstone, after claiming back-to-back stakes titles, will make another run at her first-ever graded stakes trophy in Saturday’s $250,000 Bayakoa (G3) at...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Square Up   A choppy break out of the gate in Saturday’s $250,000 Holy Bull (G3) backed Burnham Square into a corner, but the 3-year-old gelding showed a flair for working off-script in an emphatic 1 ¾-length triumph.   After being parked...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Baffert or the Field?   When the 2025 Major League Baseball season commences in March, we’ll be asking ourselves, “Dodgers or the field?”   In Saturday’s $200,000 Santa Monica (G2) at Santa Anita, that very same question will be...

LOUISIANA — By Ed DeRosa   The trio of Kentucky Derby prep races on Saturday have two different utilities among them: The Holy Bull and Withers Stakes are good betting races; the Bob & Beverly Lewis Stakes is not, but it is most likely to produce Triple Crown...

CALIFORNIA — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  $23,000 main track race for Four Year Olds And Upward Who Have Never Won Three Races.   Date:  Sunday, January 26 (Race 9, 7:07 pm ET ) 6 ½ furlongs on the main track.   What to do with a $20 Bet : $10 win on #10...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   The Place to Be   In the world of Thoroughbred racing, late January means one thing: the Pegasus World Cup.   On Saturday, the game’s brightest stars will flock to Gulfstream for a dynamic day of racing headlined by the $3 million Pegasus...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Panic at the Disco   It wasn’t the smooth trip they likely envisioned, but rider Florent Geroux and 9-5 favorite Disco Time found their groove in the nick of time to take Saturday’s $250,000 Lecomte (G3) by a head.   Competing against a...

FLORIDA — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  $94,000 Maiden Special Weight, 1 1/16 miles on the turf   Date: Sunday, January 19 (Race 10, 4:50 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet : $1 exacta box: #2 Emtinaan, #3 Zenith, # 4 Drop the Hammer, #5 Inesperee, #7...

CALIFORNIA — By Ed DeRosa   The stakes double on Saturday at Santa Anita Park features a juxtaposition of sorts as Triple Crown hopefuls take to the track for the San Vicente Stakes while older female sprinters feature in the Los Flores Stakes.   Racing Hall of Fame...

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Red Hot Coal   On a run of two straight stakes wins, Coal Battle (9-2) enters the $250,000 Smarty Jones with no intentions of slowing down.   A pair of impressive, and strikingly similar performances in the Remington Springboard Mile (hard...