Horse Racing
“And they’re off!” Horse racing of all types is found in our racing section, including Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Harness, Steeplechase and Arabian racing.
Want to get lucky? Take a look at the Wagering to help guide you. Keep track of upcoming horse races and racing events in our Calendar of Events for Horse Racing.
Want to live the dream of owning a racehorse? Check out the Breeding, Partnerships, Sales & Bloodstocks sections where you can help yourself be a force in the Sport of Kings.
Need a place to train your baby and help develop his successful career? You will find both training facilities and professional racehorse trainers in our Training section. See you in the winners’ circle!
EquineInfoExchange.com strives to present revolutionary platforms which leverage technology to benefit equine business owners. Here, we introduce you to TLore , an equine software management service.
Like many of us who have worked around horses, especially race horses, we have experienced a few scary moments. TLore founder Tracy Attfield has had a lifetime of such moments - starting at the age of 10.
Nothing equaled the exhilarating feeling she got when sitting astride racehorses every morning for over 20 years. A close second were those extreme highs when watching those horses win races. Those were fun, exciting, electrifying and sometimes frightening moments which solidified her obsession with horses and horse racing.
For those in the business of training racehorses, the ‘other’ scary moments rear their head. This includes a long list - make that a very, very long list - of day to day "panics."
To minimize these moments of anxiety, Tracy created TLore. As an internet based management program, accessible by phones, tablets and computers, TLore is an organizational tool that shares data with employees and owners, powers information on trainers' and owners' websites and enhances communication within the business.
TLore is an online business solution for training professionals and can help:
- Organize your racing stable quickly and efficiently
- Manage day-to-day operations of your stable
- Save valuable time and yet maintain a high level of communication
- Manage billing and invoicing, record and document training and set lists, racing history, health records, Lasix history, inventory, stakes nominations and more.
EquineInfoExchange.com sits down with Tracy as she shares more about herself and how her product is a tremendous asset to trainers.
Read more: Leverage Technology for Better Business - EIE Introduces TLore Equine Management Services
August 20, 2016 - California Chrome wins the 2016 TVG Pacific Classic Saturday at Del Mar.
by Patricia N. Saffran
In April, I called Mary Jo Slonaker, the Cambridge City, Indiana authority on the horse Single G, who many consider to be the greatest Standardbred pacer of all time. He was born nearby on a farm in Centerville, Indiana, and Ms. Slonaker is the secretary treasurer of the Single G Association. I told her that I was going to do an article on him.
A few days later she said, “The whole town is excited. They’re going to plant new flowers around Single G’s monument so that we can take a better photo for you.” (The monument gives the horse’s dates, foaled 1910 died 1940, so the town is still honoring a horse that most today have never seen. The town marked Single G’s centennial on his birthday on April 4, 2010.)
Ms. Slonaker continued, “We used to have a Single G float, last seen in 1993, to mark the annual Indianapolis 500 Festival parade downtown, but now we just have the sign left, which I gave to the Richmond Museum nearby for their Single G Room.” I told Ms. Slonaker, “I don’t think there’s any European or American town that honors a horse in the way that your town does. I found out that you even have a mural devoted to the Single G on the side of the US Bank building downtown that was done very recently in 2010.” “Yes,” Ms. Slonaker said, “That mural is a big draw for tourists. It’s called ‘Single G in his Time’ by Pamela Bliss. People come from all over and drive to our town to see it. The honoring of Single G even extends into some of our residents’ homes. They have called me to say they have old wallpaper or hand painted décor of Single G that they refuse to redecorate or cover up. The town also has a thriving downtown with really good restaurants and shops, while other towns nearby are fading.”
The advancements in data and content sharing are tremendously valuable for anyone who handicaps a horse race. The world of technology makes the availability of wagering on races, via phone or computer, a dream for the horse player who remembers the days of running to the track, finding a bookmaker or searching for other "creative" alternatives.
Handicapping tools and publications abound such as Timeform, Thoro-Graph and The Ragozin Sheets all compile data to help a horseplayer gain an edge against a less-informed public.
There are great places where you can find today's horse racing events so both the serious punter and occasional player can enjoy convenience and data from tracks around the world.
Although websites accurately capture information such as odds, changes and track conditions, there are factors in handicapping which cannot be measured. For example, a track bias. There are some tracks which on some days may favor a closer. Other days, a speed horse. Sometimes, horses from the inside win. Other days, there is a "dead rail."
So, one day a horse on a speed-favoring track wins easily. A bettor who follows the racing game closely may remember that particular day where speed won. If the next day, the track favors closers, the sharp bettor may look elsewhere. However, this "speed track" favoring data is not easily quantified.
Other data that can't be measured is a bad trip. Sure, we can read in a past performance if a horse was checked repeatedly or swung five wide in the stretch, but no quantifiable number can be assigned to a bad trip - whereby 10 would be an excellent trip on a "golden rail" and one would be checked and bouncing repeatedly off that same rail.
Jockeys play a critical factor too as he/she has a key role in the outcome of the race. There are no statistic for "bad rides" or controversial trips such as grabbing a speed horse or sending a closer early in the race. Likewise, a rating of a 10 would reflect a rider who has a Midas touch and chemistry with this horse while a rating of a one would reflect a ride that's rubbish.
Some data is measureable - but perhaps not necessarily accurate. For folks who have never been to the backside on a busy morning where scores of horses are training are truly missing out on one of the most beautiful experiences in this game. There are mornings where so many horses are training, there is an opportunity for confusion and inaccuracies are bound to happen. For example, if a horse has a published work for three furlongs in :38, one hopes that this is correct. But, having owned race horses where a timed work in the morning is sometimes different than a published work in the Form leads an owner to scratch their head. People wager on this published data, often trusting its accuracy.
Fortunately, there is a lot of data available and with social media there's great transparency. Bettors can look at the same set of data and interpret it differently. Many smart players watch for trends and pick their spots. But, when playing a multi-race pick and one leg is just a bit too tough, there's always the ALL button!
The Editorial Team of EquineInfoExchange.com
There are lots of informative articles in our section on Horse Racing.
Exaggerator previously lost four races to Nyquist who entered the Preakness Stakes unbeaten. However, Exaggerator turned the tables on Nyquist on the sloppy track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD. Longshot Cherry Wine closed well finishing second and nosed out Nyquist who finished third. Interesting note: Exaggerator's sire, Curlin, won the Preakness Stakes in 2007.
Nyquist wins the 142nd Kentucky Derby and remains unbeaten after holding off Exaggerator in second with Gun Runner running third. Watch it again here!
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A Triple Crown winner -- and a local artist -- is adding new lustre to the jockeys now standing guard outside NYC's classic '21' Club.
Read the original article on the NY Post here...
On a 94-degree day this July, a heist appeared to happen in broad daylight on West 52nd Street.
One by one, 36 colorful iron lawn jockeys were yanked from their spots outside the iconic ‘21’ Club, where they guarded the doors to the dining room of the city’s cultural, political and business elite.
As six foremen spent four sweaty hours lugging the statues into a moving truck — the smallest jockeys on the stairs weigh 50 pounds, while the largest near the entrance top 200 — they attracted not only scores of passers-by, but the attention of New York’s Finest.
“The NYPD slowed down [to ask] the mover what the heck was going on,” Andrew Tedesco, 45, says.
The jockeys were headed to Tedesco’s home in Montclair, NJ, where the artist is currently putting the finishing touches on an eight-week, major refurbishment of them — marking the first time in the club’s 85-year history that the little iron men have been missing from its facade.
Read more: American Pharoah is now permanently hitched to the ‘21’ Club
American Pharoah edged by 16-1 long shot Keen Ice in Midsummer Derby
By Mark Singelais Updated 12:09 am, Sunday, August 30, 2015
Read the original article on Times Union here...
Saratoga Springs
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah walked down a dirt path back to his barn at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday afternoon, another beaten star at a track long known as the "Graveyard of Champions."
Eduardo Luna, his groom, held his lead shank and a pair of Saratoga Springs police officers followed behind. After a crowd of 50,000 cheered his every move before the Travers Stakes, now only a few onlookers on the backstretch snapped his picture and gave him a smattering of applause.
At 6:36 p.m., American Pharoah and his small entourage passed Barn 27. It's the summer home of trainer Dale Romans, who had just won his first Travers when a 16-1 long shot named Keen Ice passed a tiring American Pharoah in the final sixteenth to win by three-quarters of a length.
Inside his office, Romans slumped back in his leather swivel chair. The heavyset Kentucky trainer wore a white dress shirt that was soaked with sweat from the chest up. He hadn't shown up at the postrace news conference.
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