Horses Betting

Mucho Macho Man, like the rest of the field, had high hopes entering the Kentucky Derby. He managed to come through with a solid performance, finishing third at the first leg of the Triple Crown. Mucho Macho Man may not have won the race as he would have liked, but he figures to be a key figure in the quest for Animal Kingdom towards the Triple Crown.

Horse racing odds have Mucho Macho Man as one of the favorites at 5-1.

Mucho Macho Man had a great run at Belmont Park on the 17th of May, running the half-mile in 49 1/5 seconds. The track wasn’t in great condition, but the horse ran well over the four furlongs anyway.

One of the encouraging things was that the horse was pretty steady throughout his most recent run. He showed no signs of slowing down and it appears that the horse could have an even better race at the Preakness Stakes than he did at the Kentucky Derby.

Animal Kingdom was the winner of the Kentucky Derby and his biggest rival might be Mucho Macho Man due to some recent changes in the lineup at the Preakness Stakes. Nehro, the second place finisher at the Kentucky Derby, has withdrawn from the Preakness. Mucho Macho Man will likely start the Preakness Stakes as one of the favorites for the upcoming race.

Mucho Macho Man is owned by Reever Thoroughbred Racing and Dream Team Racing Stable. He is the son of Macho Uno and is ridden by Rajiv Maragh.

The Preakness Stakes will take place on the 21st of May in Pimlico.

Premier Pegasus was seen as one of the best up and coming horses in the world coming into this year. While he is still a horse with a lot of potential, it looks the hopes of his trainer, owner and fans to win the Kentucky Derby will be disappointed.

Premier Pegasus is at 6-1 in Kentucky Derby Odds.

The Kentucky Derby field is thinning out slowly as there are several horses that are affected by injuries. Premier Pegasus is one of the horses that was affected by injury and it looks like the horse will now undergo surgery to try to try correct the injuries that the horse has sustained.

The horse was an early favorite to win the events prior to the Kentucky Derby and many people thought that the horse would come through as the favorite in the Derby. Much of the hype around Premier Pegasus is because of his fantastic win at San Felipe.

The horse was dominant at the San Felipe Stakes and won the race by 7.75 lengths over Jaycito, the second place finisher. The event was a $250,000 event and it was actually the largest margin that any horse had won the race by in 74 years. With that impressive victory the horse had high expectations for the Kentucky Derby.

While expectations were high, the sustained injury left Myung Cho, his trainer, with no choice but to send the horse to surgery. Cho is also the trainer and many people hope that the horse will return to full health and have a career ahead of him with Cho’s training.

Bob Baffert will have a chance to put out a solid horse for the Kentucky Derby in 2011 and in the horse racing world he is known as one of the best trainers. Even though Jaycito will have to overcome injuries if he is going to compete with the other horses in the race, he is seen as one of the top horses in the field.

In horse racing betting, Jaycito is among the favorites at 12-1 odds.

To overcome a bruise on his hoof, Jaycito has been struggling. The bruise may continue to plague the horse as it has already kept him out of the Santa Anita Derby.

The good news is that the horse is one of the favorites to win when he is healthy while the injury is bad news. After the original favorite was scratched from the line with an injury, the horse was chosen as the replacement favorite for the Santa Anita Derby.

Baffert claims that the injury is healing as the horse has had the issues with the bruise since late March. The horse will only need a few more days off before returning to full speed what Baffert feels. Jaycito came in second a month ago in San Felipe as he has won a race at Norfolk. The horse is certainly capable of taking the cake when he is healthy.

As there will be a race in Keeneland on the 23rd of April, the horse does have one more chance to warm up for the Kentucky Derby. Ahmed Zayat is the owner of Jaycito. Zayat decided to change Jaycito’s trainer to Baffert from Mike Mitchell.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association released its latest three-year-old poll Monday, with Uncle Mo extending his lead while The Factor jumped five spots.

Uncle Mo is the early Kentucky Derby favorite in Horse Racing Odds, at +350.

The Kentucky Derby, the first of Horse Racing’s Triple Crown, takes place May 7 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky (5:30 pm ET, NBC).

Uncle Mo, which won the Eclipse Award is owned by Mike Repole. The colt gained a top vote and added 17 points in the latest NTRA balloting. Trained by Todd Pletcher, the 2010 champion two-year-old received 19 first-place votes and 205 total points.

Uncle Mo will likely make its next start in the $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 9.

Fountain of Youth Stakes winner Soldat continues in the second spot with one top vote and 160 points.

The Factor moved up five places to third after its big win in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Bob Baffert, The Factor picked up the remaining first-place vote and 133 points.

The Factor is at +500 to win the Kentucky Derby in Horse Racing Odds.

San Felipe Stakes champ Premier Pegasus climbed one spot to fourth, garnering 116 points.

Completing the three-year-old poll are Dialed In (113), Stay Thirsty (101), Mucho Macho Man (94), To Honor and Serve (39), Flashpoint (38) and Jaycito (24).

On Tuesday, NBC Sports said it will broadcast all three legs of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown for the first time since 2005.

Horse betting fans around the world are quite excited about this news as they will get better coverage of all famous races.

Since 2005 it will be the first time that the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes will all be shown by the same network. In 2006, the Belmont Stakes moved to ABC.

With Churchill Downs Inc., NBC had already reached a new deal to keep in place its coverage of the Kentucky Derby, which will be run on May 7 this year and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports Group Chairman said the network will combine forces with cable TV’s Versus Network also owned by NBC parent Comcast to provide expanded horse racing coverage for thoroughbred fans.

The deals include coverage of the Black Eyed Susan Stakes and other Preakness day and Belmont day programming on Versus, which recently joined NBC family through its merger with Comcast.

In addition, expanded Derby week programming, including the Kentucky Oaks and Derby day programming, will air on Versus. In all, the NBC networks will air 25 hours of Triple Crown coverage. The Preakness will be run May 21, with the 1-1/2 Belmont Stakes on June 11. No horse has managed to win all three races since Affirmed in 1978.

Since then, 11 horses have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but failed to conquer the Belmont. The last attempt was in 2008, when Big Brown failed to finish the race.

The retirement of 2010, Kentucky Derby Winner Super Saver was announced by WinStar Farm.

There was a fear that Super Saver would not recover his racing form after such an injury, making retirement the preferable option, although the three-year-old colt had an injury to his cannon bones that he could have recovered.

While a stud fee has yet to be named for him, he will be put out to stud.

Super Saver managed to take home $1,889,766 in his racing career. Including the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby, he also won two races and finished second in two others. In addition, in the Odysseus’s Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, he had a third place finish.

In the wake of the departure of Bill Casner and Ken Troutt, Super Saver’s campaigners, from the WinStar partnership comes Super Saver’s retirement. For WinStar Farm, Super Saver represented a major breakthrough, giving them their first Kentucky Derby winner.

While the winner of the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the farm had previously bred Funny Cide, their sale of him as a yearling prevented them from reaping any reward from it. Super Saver was one of four WinStar horses, the year he won the Derby by 2 ½ lengths. Cementing WinStar’s position was another WinStar horse, Drosselmeyer, won the Belmont Stakes.

The 2009 Horse of the Year in thoroughbred racing, Rachel Alexandra has been retired from racing, her owners announced Tuesday.

With a win in the 2009 Kentucky Oaks, Rachel started turning heads and went on to win all eight of her starts as a 3-year-old filly in 2009. But in 2010, Rachel Alexandra won only two of five starts.

In the Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga on Aug. 29 was her last loss, when she was bested by a length. To run in Saturday’s Grade 1 Beldame Invitational at Belmont Park, she had been working out, but owner Jess Jackson decided to retire the filly on Tuesday.

Jackson said in a news release, “As you know, despite top training and a patient campaign, Rachel Alexandra did not return to her 2009 form. I believe it’s time to retire our champion and reward her with a less stressful life. We are delighted that she will retire healthy and happy to our beautiful farm in Kentucky.”

Jackson said, next year he would breed Rachel Alexandra to his two-time Horse of the Year Curlin.

Following her 20 1/4-length victory in the 2009 Kentucky Oaks, business partner Harold McCormick and Jackson had purchased Rachel Alexandra privately from owner/breeder Dolphus Morrison, his partner Mike Lauffer, and trainer Hal Wiggins.

Rachel Alexandra won the Preakness Stakes, Fifteen days later, holding off Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird by one length.

I don’t think all that many people know that George Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees owner who died at age 80 Tuesday, dabbled in horse racing. Well he actually more than dabbled, he was a big player in thoroughbred horse racing, even entering horses in the Kentucky Derby. The funny thing was, as brash and outspoken as he was in baseball, he was quiet and reserved with the horse racing crowd.

The most famous horses he owned were Majestic Warrior, a beautiful horse who won the Hopeful Stakes in 2007, and Bellamy Road, who was the favorite in the 2005 Kentucky Derby. Bellamy Road ended up finishing 7th.

Steinbrenner loved his horses and he loved the Kentucky Derby. He had six horses in all who ran the Derby. Noted horse trainer Nick Zito trained horses for Steinbrenner for 15 years. Those who knew Steinbrenner around the horse track couldn’t say enough good things about him. Zito chimed in with, “I had a good relationship with him. He took me to a playoff game in 1995 and sat me next to Joe DiMaggio.”

Steinbrenner’s 750-acre Kinsman Stud in Florida was a major breeding ground for horses. About 50 horses are at Kinsman breeding and training. In his life Steinbrenner also owned shares of Florida Downs race track as well as Balmoral and Maywood in Illinois.

Colonial Downs in New Kent, Virginia will once again play host to the Colonial Turf Cup, on Saturday, 19th June. Like the Kentucky Derby, this event does not have the allure of a race; it is quickly becoming an important race. The purse is at $750,000 for this year’s race. It is the first race in the “Grand Slam of Grass,” which encompasses four races; it is also unique in a way. Any horse that is able to win all four races wins a bonus of $5 million.

In 2005, the first Colonial Turf Cup was held. The race was upgraded from a Grade III race to a Grade II, last year. The race distance is 9.5 furlongs, which is equal to 1 and 3/16 of a mile.

There are several notable entries, while there are only seven horses in the Colonial Turf Cup this year. horse racing favorites, Dean’s Kitten and Paddy O’Prado are entered for the race Saturday and both ran in the Kentucky Derby. While these two horses have the name recognition, one of the biggest sleepers in the field is Kindergarten Kid, who has a record of 3-2 but has recently impressed

Anyone who enjoys horse racing should tune in to the Colonial Turf Cup this weekend, despite the lack of name recognition. The “Grand Slam of Grass” is still important and a $5 million bonus is a huge incentive for every jockey and owner entered, although it may not have the same allure that the Triple Crown does.

A stable mate of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, Drosselmeyer, made a run of a lifetime to capture the Belmont Stakes Saturday in New York. before the race, Drosselmeyer was dismissed by all the horse racing experts and until the field hit the stretch run, the experts looked like they knew what they were talking about.

Jockey Mike Smith and Drosselmeyer hung back on the field and waited to pounce like a cat on the field late in the stretch run. of the gate, Drosselmeyer got a rough break out and the two dudes, First Dude and Game on Dude hooked up at the start of the race and ran away from the field initially.

If this race were the mile and sixteenth Kentucky Derby, both First Dude and Game on Dude may have won but with the race being the longest distance either of these horses has run, a mile and a half, there was no chance the two could keep up their torrid pace.

First Dude failed to hang on finishing third and both horses were spent in the last 200 yards, while Game on Dude fell out of the money finishing fourth. To grab the second place spot right at the wire, Fly Down also made an amazing drive.

Both horses were spent in the last 200 yards and First Dude failed to hang on finishing third, while Game on Dude fell out of the money finishing fourth. Fly Down also made an amazing drive to grab the second place spot right at the wire. Drosselmeyer paid $28 to win, $11.60 to place, and $7.70 to show. An impressive and unexpected upset. Fly Down paid $6.80 to place and $5.10 to show while First Dude paid $4.90 to show in a disappointing collapse.