Triple Crown & Horse Wagering Articles
Preakness Stakes Power Rankings - A Lady in the Lead
May 13, 2009 at 17:55 EST in Triple Crown Articles
The mud has barely begun to dry back into dirt on the Churchill Downs racing strip and already Triple Crown horseplayers are singing the praises of...
Kentucky Derby Winner Arrives for Preakness minus his Jockey
May 13, 2009 at 13:04 EST in Triple Crown Articles
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mine That Bird arrived at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. for the 134th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1) Tuesday...
Brush Up on Your Preakness Stakes Trivia
May 13, 2009 at 10:50 EST in Triple Crown Articles
The First Running: A crowd of 12,000 gathered for the first running of the Preakness Stakes in 1873. The winner of the race was Survivor, who won the...
Preakness History on Side of Mine That Bird
May 12, 2009 at 12:44 EST in Triple Crown Articles
Just about everyone including his connections were shocked by Mine That Bird’s Kentucky Derby win, the second longest price in the history of...
Preakness Stakes Preview - Breaking Down the Favorite
May 12, 2009 at 11:37 EST in Triple Crown Articles
Preakness Stakes: Pace, and Rachel Alexandra, Gets a Break With Defection of Hull Rachel Alexandra, the -125 favorite in the BetUS online racebook to...
Kentucky Derby Recap - Mine That Bird Wins at 50 to 1
May 4, 2009 at 11:54 EST in Triple Crown Articles
It should have been a foregone conclusion. After two straight years in which the favorite won the Kentucky Derby, Street Sense in 2007 and Big...
135th Kentucky Derby - Simplifying the most difficult race on earth
May 2, 2009 at 15:00 EST in Triple Crown Articles
Simplifying the most difficult race on earth The Kentucky Derby stands alone as the most difficult of all thoroughbred races to handicap. If it was...
135th Kentucky Derby - Pretenders, Possibles and Contenders
May 2, 2009 at 14:00 EST in Triple Crown Articles
There have been many changes the past couple of weeks concerning who’s in and who’s out of America’s Race. Injuries too their toll:...
Brushing Up on Kentucky Derby Trivia
May 2, 2009 at 13:30 EST in Triple Crown Articles
With the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby coming up on Saturday, now is a good time to brush up on some Derby Trivia. After all, for some...
Tradition and the Mint Julep - A Historic Portrait of the Derby
May 2, 2009 at 11:35 EST in Triple Crown Articles
Tradition! That’s the theme of the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” based on tales by Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) defining the Jewish lifestyle...
