Download the Nick’s Picks Belmont Stakes Tip Sheet! Belmont Stakes on the Big Stage, Again On the biggest racetrack in the biggest city lies the eyes of the horseracing world early Saturday evening when the biggest of thoroughbreds, Justify, goes for horseracing’s biggest accolade. After a thirty-seven year drought of Triple Crown coronations, here comes … Continue reading Nick’s Picks – Free Belmont Stakes Tip Sheet
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Nick’s Picks – Free Kentucky Oaks & Kentucky Derby Day Tip Sheet
Download the Nick’s Picks article and the Tip Sheet here! A Year of Derby Remorse Do me a favor. If you have your mind made up about your Derby horse before reading Nick’s Picks please stay with it. I won’t be insulted if you don’t like #6 Good Magic. You don’t want to spend a … Continue reading Nick’s Picks – Free Kentucky Oaks & Kentucky Derby Day Tip Sheet
2017 Virginia-Bred Race Schedule
The VHBPA and the Maryland Jockey Club are planning three days of Virginia-Bred/Sired racing at Laurel Park in 2017. The intended series has races for colts and fillies going long as well as colts and fillies that sprint. Commonwealth Day, September 30th, the highlight of the series features both the Commonwealth Derby and the Commonwealth … Continue reading 2017 Virginia-Bred Race Schedule
3 Saturdays In April = 6 HUGE Derby Preps races!
ROUSE HONORED WITH F. AMBROSE CLARK AWARD
TUESDAY, 06 DECEMBER 2016 BY NSA STAFF Randy Rouse Photo by Douglas Lees Randall D. Rouse, a Virginia horseman who guided the National Steeplechase Association through some of its most challenging days in the 1970s and inaugurated one of the sport’s most important innovations, has been awarded the F. Ambrose Clark Award, American jump racing’s … Continue reading ROUSE HONORED WITH F. AMBROSE CLARK AWARD
Virginia-Bred Queen Caroline Tries the Step Up to Graded Company in Keeneland’s Grade One Queen Elizabeth
Article Courtesy of the Bloodhorse Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse heads a field of nine 3-year-old fillies for the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Lane’s End (gr. IT) at Keeneland Oct. 15. Gary Barber, Michael Ambler, and Windways Farm’s sophomore daughter of City Zip faces a rematch for the fourth time … Continue reading Virginia-Bred Queen Caroline Tries the Step Up to Graded Company in Keeneland’s Grade One Queen Elizabeth
Timmy White, Virginia Horseman Passes Away
Arthur Timothy White of Middleburg, Virginia, passed away on September 25th, 2016. Lovingly known as Timmy, he was born on October 12, 1955, the son of Arthur Ridgley White and Mary Wentworth Davy White. Timmy attended the Hill School and The Phelps School. Timmy’s love for animals but especially horses was born from watching his … Continue reading Timmy White, Virginia Horseman Passes Away
Second Off Track Betting Location In Richmond Is Approved By Virginia Racing Commission
Tuesday, the Virginia Racing Commission approved the Virginia Equine Alliance’s request to open a second Off Track Betting Center in Richmond. The OTB will be in a restaurant called “Ponies & Pints”, and is located downtown in Shockoe Bottom at 110 North 18th Street, near the Farmer’s market area, train station, many restaurants and … Continue reading Second Off Track Betting Location In Richmond Is Approved By Virginia Racing Commission
OTBs To Open In Richmond – WRIC, Channel 8 Report
Click on the link below to see WIRC’s August 19th report on the opening of two new OTBs in the Richmond area. http://wric.com/2016/08/18/off-track-betting-returning-to-shockoe-bottom/
Valid Tries for Graded Stakes Win in Saturday’s Grade II Gulfstream Park Handicap
(Courtesy of the Bloodhorse.com) Trainer Todd Pletcher is scheduled to saddle four starters in search of his fourth victory in the $500,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap (gr. II) March 5. At the very least, the Pletcher trainees will outnumber the competition in the seven-horse field for the mile test. Pletcher’s contingent includesItsaknockout, the 2015 Fountain of Youth … Continue reading Valid Tries for Graded Stakes Win in Saturday’s Grade II Gulfstream Park Handicap
