TORONTO — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  $100,000 Steady Growth Stakes   Date: Sunday, December 15 (Race 11, 6:17 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet in the Steady Growth: $1 exacta box- #4 Ron’s Gizmo, #5 No More Options, #7 Secret Reserve, #9 Rapid Test $8...

CALIFORNIA — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  Grade 1 $300,000 Matriarch Stakes   Date: Sunday, December 1 (Race 7, 6:28 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet in the Matriarch Stakes: $1 exacta box bet- #3 Ag Bullet, #4 Child of the Moon (FR), #10 Aspen Grove (IRE),...

TORONTO — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Races for Sunday November 17th   Ashbridges Bay Stakes Race 10, 5:18 pm ET   What to do with a $20 Bet in the Ashbridges Bay: $10 win and $10 place on #6 War Painter   The Reason: This Kevin Attard trainee could come up...

INDIANAPOLIS — By Ed DeRosa   It’s closing day at Horseshoe Indianapolis, and the curtain comes down in Shelbyville with a 12-race card featuring ten Thoroughbred races including a stakes-double as races 8 and 9. The Miss Indiana for fillies and the Indiana Futurity for...

NEW YORK — By Ed DeRosa   The New York Racing Association is kind enough to send us into the weekend in style with a stakes double during the opening week of Aqueduct’s fall meeting. The Pebbles and Autumn Days Stakes closes the 9-race card on Friday, and the former...

CALIFORNIA — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Race:  Grade 3 $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes   Date: Sunday, October 27 (Race 7, 7:04 pm ET )   What to do with a $20 Bet in the Autumn Miss $1 exacta box bet- #3 Wine on Tap, #6 Medoro, #8 Sneaker, #9 Circle of Trust, #10...

KENTUCKY — By Ed DeRosa   You know the expression “On the outside looking in?” Well, when it comes to the Valley View Stakes on Friday at Keeneland, it might as well be “On the outside looking to win.” We will see who actually ends up on the outside...

NEW YORK — By Ed DeRosa   Two-year-olds get a graded stakes opportunity turf sprinting Friday at Aqueduct where the Futurity Stakes serves as a prep for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint on Nov. 1 at Del Mar. As one would expect from a graded stakes sprint for...

PENNSYLVANIA — By Ed DeRosa The biggest weekend of horse racing in Pennsylvania is upon us, and while many eyes will be cast upon Parx on Saturday with its two Grade 1 races and superstar horses such as Thorpedo Anna and Next competing, the good folks at Railbirds are here to...

KENTUCKY — By Ed DeRosa   Before we get into the field for the One Dreamer Stakes today at Kentucky Downs, the one thing you absolutely must know about this track is that 18 of the 33 races during its opening week were won on the front end. To paraphrase William...