TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   The Art of Resilience The 2024 campaign hasn’t exactly gone to plan for multiple graded stakes winner Master Piece (CHI), but the 8-year-old Chilean-bred can paint his season in a different light with a successful defense of his Red Smith (G2)...

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...

SAN DIEGO — By Matthew Lomon   Big Game Baller All it took for Sierra Leone to end a four-race winless streak was a matchup with 13 of the world’s greatest dirt horses in the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). While not for a lack of trying (0-2-2 during the drought),...

TORONTO — By Chris Lomon   Spotlight Races for Sunday, Nov. 3rd at Woodbine:   Grade 3 Mazarine Stakes Race 8, 4:50 pm ET   What to do with a $20 Bet in the Mazarine: First Bet: $10 place on #4 Aristella Second Bet: $10 exacta box #4 Aristella and #5 Foxtastic The Reason:...

SAN DIEGO — By Ed DeRosa   Breeders’ Cup is always exciting, but this year’s Championship Saturday on Nov. 2 at Del Mar is a smorgasbord of opportunity for the bettor looking to make a big, maybe even life-changing, score. For MyRailbirds, we’re targeting the...

SAN DIEGO — By Matthew Lomon   Off Home Turf After posting Rafael Nadal-esque clay numbers on the turf, City of Troy – the highest rated turf horse in the world – will make his dirt debut Saturday in the FIFA World Cup of Thoroughbred racing, the $7 million Breeders’ Cup...

SAN DIEGO — By Ed DeRosa   Breeders’ Cup is upon us! We know for sure this will be the richest two days of racing in North America by purses, but we want this to be the richest two days of betting as well! In order to do that, we’ll have to zero in on our best opinions....

TORONTO — By Matthew Lomon   Give Him the Emmy Make that three weeks atop the charts for Hit Show, who starred in the $350,000 Fayette (G2) on Saturday afternoon at Keeneland. Billed as the headliner among the field of eight (3-5 favorite), Hit Show made good on his main...

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...

TORONTO — By Ed DeRosa   The Sequel With the buzz around Hit Show (2-1) at an all-time high heading into Saturday’s $350,000 Fayette (G2), nine challengers, including Rattle N Roll (4-1), have their sights set on shaking things up. It’s been a banner past few months for...