Featured Race(s): Handicapping PIM, CT, and MTH
Ted Black turns his handicapping eye to Pimlico, Monmouth, and Charles Town for Saturday’s featured races.
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Author: Ted Black
Special Specials: Marking 3 famed runnings of Pimlico’s greatest handicap race
This year’s running of the Pimlico Special marks three great anniversaries for the race, including the 75th anniversary of one of racing’s greatest contests: the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race.
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Midlantic horses make a splash in Louisville
A couple of Pennsylvania-bred longshots and a Maryland-bred favorite added up to a productive weekend for mid-Atlantic-breds in Louisville this Derby weekend. Ted Black has the scoop.
Read MoreZimny and Charles Town aiming for G1 status with Classic
Soon after the post-race celebration ended in the winner’s circle following Game On Dude’s victory in the fifth running of the Grade II, $1.5 million Charles Town Classic, Charles Town’s Vice President of...
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Did Dude set a record? CT to revisit Classic time
Game On Dude won Saturday’s G2 Charles Town Classic in an official time of 1:52.27, but the track has said it will review the final time. Our man Ted Black says that’s a good thing — because logic, and nearly a dozen hand-timings of the race, suggest that Dude was a lot closer to the stakes record than to the pedestrian official time.
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