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Bet the Preakness Stakes: Our Next Triple Crown Race

With the Derby over it is on to Pim­lico for the next stage of the Triple Crown, the Preak­ness Stakes which takes place this Sat­ur­day, May 18th. Six of the nine con­tenders in Preak­ness have already tried their luck in the Ken­tucky Derby which saw Orb win con­vinc­ingly after com­ing from behind. Will Orb con­tinue it’s supremacy over the field or will the quest to become a Triple Crown win­ner come to a pre­ma­ture end at the Preakness? Linesmaker’s fixed future odds have Orb at even to win the Preak­ness Stakes. You can log in to our off track bet­ting (OTB) area and... 

Shrug Wins Betfair Hollywood Park Feature

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Shrug ral­lied to beat pace­set­ter Close to the Edge by 1 1/4 lengths and win the $ 55,350 fea­ture at Bet­fair Hol­ly­wood Park on Fri­day night. Rid­den by Gar­rett Gomez, Shrug ran 6 1/2 fur­longs on the syn­thetic Cush­ion Track in 1:15.97 and paid $ 7, $ 3.60 and $ 2.60. Close to the Edge returned $ 7.20 and $ 3.20, while Sinai was another neck back in third and paid $ 3.20 to show as the 9–5 favorite. It was Shrug’s third win in 13 career starts. He has earn­ings of $ 136,930. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted... 

Hierro Wins $200k Grade 3 Derby Trial

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Hierro stayed calm to the delight of trainer Steve Asmussen as a vio­lent storm moved through Churchill Downs. He showed a lit­tle moxie, too, in cap­tur­ing the $ 200,000-added Grade 3 Derby Trial. The 3-year-old chest­nut colt with jockey Julien Lep­aroux lurked in fifth early before mak­ing his move on the back­stretch to beat Payn­ter and Steal­case in the mile race around the sloppy dirt track on Sat­ur­day night. “This evening with the weather ear­lier and then the delay in the pad­dock, I loved how he acted,” Asmussen said. “I... 

Groomer’s Slaying a Kentucky Derby Whodunit

LOUISVILLE (HORSE RACING/Barrouquere) The bour­bon had been stashed away and the hats returned to clos­ets by the time some­one found a groomer’s body inside a barn at Churchill Downs, hours after the run­ning of America’s most famous horse race. Other work­ers on the back­side of the track — a dif­fer­ent world from the pageantry seen on race day — were left to won­der if a killer was among them: Why did some­one want 48-year-old Adan Fabian Perez dead? How was the Guatemala native killed? And why did his killer leave him in a barn, a few sta­bles away from where I’ll Have... 

Unusual Heatwave Wins Snow Chief Stakes

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Unusual Heat­wave col­lared Stoney Fleece in the clos­ing yards to win the $ 300,000 Snow Chief Stakes by a half-length on Cal­i­for­nia Gold Rush day at Bet­fair Hol­ly­wood Park on Sat­ur­day, with jockey Rafael Bejarano win­ning five races includ­ing three stakes a day after being sworn in as a U.S. citizen. The 29-year-old Peru-born rider also rode five win­ners on Gold Rush Day in 2009. Bejarano has won five stakes through the first three days of the track’s spring-summer meet. Unusual Heat­wave ran 1 1–8 miles in 1:51.63 and paid... 

Stallion Dynaformer Dead at 27

VERSAILLES, Ky. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Dynaformer, the sire of Ken­tucky Derby win­ner Bar­baro, has died at Three Chim­neys Farm two weeks after hav­ing a heart attack in his stall. The 27-year-old stal­lion was one of the most suc­cess­ful sires in the thor­ough­bred indus­try with 21 crops that have earned more than $ 105 mil­lion, includ­ing 130 stakes win­ners and 18 millionaires. Three Chim­neys Pres­i­dent Case Clay says in a release Sun­day that “Dynaformer impacted the indus­try in a way that few ever have or will” and called him an awe-inspiring horse to be around. Dynaformer’s... 

Trinniberg Has World-Class Speed, but May Not Last

LOUISVILLE (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Bis­nath Par­boo took in the crowd of reporters ask­ing his son over and over if Trin­niberg could han­dle the mile and a quar­ter run at the Ken­tucky Derby after never going longer than seven fur­longs. When the group dis­persed, the 72-year-old from Trinidad finally spoke up. “The way he’s train­ing now, I’m 100 per­cent cer­tain he’s going to win,” Par­boo said. “He’s doing every­thing right. We couldn’t ask for noth­ing more. Noth­ing more.” The patri­arch of the fam­ily is doing it his way with the Teu­fles­berg colt... 

Creative Cause Gets Trainer to 1st Derby at Age 71

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Mike Har­ring­ton is con­tent watch­ing the hub­bub sur­round­ing Ken­tucky Derby week from afar. The 71-year-old trainer is hap­pily tucked away in a non-descript barn lack­ing a view of the Twin Spires. Let Churchill Downs sta­ble vis­i­tors be enter­tained by Bob Baffert’s jokes or eaves­drop on Todd Pletcher’s train­ing tidbits. Har­ring­ton prefers lay­ing low with Cre­ative Cause, likely to be one of the top bet­ting choices for Saturday’s race. The gray-roan colt has never fin­ished out of the money in any of his eight career... 

Quiet Oasis Wins Wilshire Handicap

INGLEWOOD (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Quiet Oasis won the $ 100,000 Wilshire Hand­i­cap by a half-length Sun­day at Bet­fair Hol­ly­wood Park. Rid­den by Mario Gutier­rez, Quiet Oasis ran a mile on the turf in 1:34.63 in her first start in more than five months. She paid $ 33.20, $ 12.60 and $ 6.40. Pace­set­ter Briecat and Antares World fin­ished in a dead heart for sec­ond. Briecat returned $ 4 and $ 4.60, while Antares World paid $ 19 and $ 12. Nereid, the 6–5 favorite, was fourth. Quiet Oasis has three wins in eight career starts and earn­ings of $ 122,379. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Black Caviar: 19 Wins in a Row, Britain Bound

BRISBANE, Aus­tralia — Peter Moody was stand­ing around some of Australia’s best thor­ough­breds at his soggy sta­bles in Mel­bourne, but had time to take a tele­phone call inquir­ing about one of them. As usual, it was about Black Caviar. The 5-year-old mare owned by a con­sor­tium of fam­i­lies and friends, some Melbourne-area veg­etable grow­ers, has won 19 races in 19 starts. She’ll get a chance to make it 20 in a row after Moody nom­i­nated Black Caviar to run April 28 at Mor­phettville in South Aus­tralia state. Then she’ll take her sprint show over­seas to Britain’s...