Countdown to the Crown: Week 6 - Feb. 10, 2012
Editor’s Note: Countdown to the Crown returns for a seventh season online as one of the most comprehensive handicapper’s scouting reports of the 3-year-old scene.
Top 5 Sprint Cup Drivers with Something to Prove in 2012
As of February 6, 2012, there are 37 full-time teams, (39 if we include the unknown Red Bull team) and 11 part-time teams. So all together there's a list of 50 teams and driver combinations that I could choose from. But which of those 50 teams and driver combinations have the most to prove in 2012? Well that will be depicted in this article coming up. First of course, we get two honorable ...
Burton wooed Blickensderfer, who in turn pursued others
Driver Jeff Burton likes to call Drew Blickensderfer "a great recruiter" who has initiated significant and promising personnel changes on the No. 31 Chevrolet team at Richard Childress Racing.
Kentucky Derby: Castellano facing tough decisions early on trail
Union Rags is the slight favorite over Algorithms in the first edition of Daily Racing Form ’s Derby Watch for 2012, and, among individual entrants in Pool 1 of this weekend’s Kentucky Derby Future Wager, Algorithms is slightly favored over Union Rags. Box that exacta, and you’ve tied up the two horses currently viewed as the leading contenders for this year’s Derby, on May 5 at Churchill Downs.
Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to raid race horse fund would kill industry, breeders say
Horse breeder Tom McClay says he has invested $3 million in the state over the past two years because Pennsylvania had some of the best purses and breeder incentives in the race horse industry.
'All Others' a strong favorite?
The first of three pools of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins its three-day run on Friday and the bet's opening scenario is very similar to each of its opening pools since the wager was created in 1999.
Nissan launches V8 Supercar assault
JAPANESE carmaker Nissan is launching a $15 million attack on Australia's heartland brands, Ford and Holden.
Gulfstream Park: Ever So Lucky starts outside in Hutcheson Stakes
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jonathan Sheppard has been non-committal about Ever So Lucky’s status as a Kentucky Derby candidate. But if he does get to the Derby, Ever So Lucky will get there via a somewhat unconventional route after making his 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s seven-furlong Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup
By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Wrap-up of thoroughbred stakes action.
