» The Nomination Is In: The Diana G1 at Saratoga
12/07/25 12:55 from The Turk: Horses, Handicapping and Hijinks
She Feels Pretty /Photo Credit: Courtney Snow/Past the Wire Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog, where I focus on Turf Racing and Exacta Betting. $5.50 for a DRF Formulator Card at Saratoga, a price increase from DRF over the p...
» Sunday Seoul & Busan: Race-By-Race Preview (July 13)
11/07/25 10:26 from Horse Racing in Korea
Sunday’s racing is at Seoul with 11 races from 10:35 to 18:00, and at Busan where there a6 races from 12:05 to 16:30. Here are the previews: Seoul Race 1: Class 4 (1000M) Special Weight A / KRW 75 Million Imported maidens with five...
» Seoul Saturday: Race-By-Race Preview (July 12)
10/07/25 16:57 from Horse Racing in Korea
Saturday’s racing is at Seoul with 9 races from 10:35 to 18:00. Here are the previews: Seoul Race 1: Class 6 (1000M) Special Weight A / KRW 45 Million Juvenile maiden fillies with all nine making their racecourse debuts. (5) HWANSA...
» Busan Friday: Race-By-Race Preview (July 11)
09/07/25 23:02 from Horse Racing in Korea
The weekend’s racing kicks off at Busan on Friday with 8 races from 11:25 to 18:00. Here are the previews: Busan Race 1: Class 6 (1000M) Special Weight A / KRW 45 Million Juvenile maiden fillies with all twelve racing for the first...
» Saratoga & Economic Realism
07/07/25 12:00 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
Happy Monday everyone. There's quite a bit of twitter chatter about Saratoga this past weekend; about both its meagre attendance numbers , and its stout YoY handle for the Belmont (at Saratoga, which isn't usually at Saratoga) racing fes...
» Sunday Seoul & Busan: Race-By-Race Preview (July 6)
04/07/25 23:24 from Horse Racing in Korea
Seoul hosts 11 Sunday races between 10:35 and 18:00 while there are 6 at Busan from 12:05 to 16:30. Here are the previews: Seoul Race 1: Class 6 (1200M) Special Weight A / KRW 30 Million Maidens with four of the eleven racing for the fir...
» The Nomination Is In: The Kelso, G3 at Saratoga
04/07/25 12:50 from The Turk: Horses, Handicapping and Hijinks
Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog, where I specialize in Turf Racing and Exacta Betting. I've been handicapping since the mid 1980's and I've posted over 725 blog entries here since 2008. What I am not is a horse ...
» Seoul Saturday: Race-By-Race Preview (July 5)
03/07/25 22:51 from Horse Racing in Korea
Saturday’s racing is at Seoul with 9 races from 10:35 to 18:00. Here are the previews: Seoul Race 1: Class 6 (1000M) Special Weight A / KRW 45 Million Ten previously unraced juveniles so we must head to the trial videos. (6) REVERE...
» Busan Friday: Race-By-Race Preview (July 4)
02/07/25 21:33 from Horse Racing in Korea
July’s racing gets underway at Busan on Friday with an 8-race card from 11:25 to 18:00. Here are the previews: Busan Race 1: Class 6 (1000M) Special Weight A / KRW 45 Million A full field of juvenile maidens with eleven of the twel...
» HANGANG CLASS DEMOLISHES OWNERS’ CUP FIELD IN TRACK RECORD EFFORT
30/06/25 05:26 from Horse Racing in Korea
Hangang Class smashed his own track record for the mile in the process of demolishing a strong field on a lightning quick track in the Owners’ Cup (1600M KOR-G3) at Busan Racecourse on Sunday afternoon. Two months ago, on a similar...
» BUSAN OWNERS’ CUP 2025 – PREVIEW & FORM COMMENTS
27/06/25 21:14 from Horse Racing in Korea
SPEED YOUNG has spent most of his career playing second-fiddle to stablemate Global Hit but that wasn’t the case in last year’s Busan Owners’ Cup, and it won’t be this time either as the defending champion will be favourite when he takes...
» Owners’ Cup Sunday Busan & Seoul: Race-By-Race Preview (June 29)
26/06/25 23:13 from Horse Racing in Korea
The Busan Owners’ Cup headlines Sunday racing. The final Group race until August is the concluding event on the 6-race program at Busan which runs from 12:05 to 16:30. There are 11 races at Seoul from 10:35 to 18:00. Here are the p...
» The Nomination Is In: The Stephen Foster Handicap G1 at Churchill Downs
26/06/25 17:13 from The Turk: Horses, Handicapping and Hijinks
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» Seoul Saturday: Race-By-Race Preview (June 28)
26/06/25 03:29 from Horse Racing in Korea
Saturday’s racing is at Seoul with 9 races from 10:35 to 18:00. Here are the previews: Seoul Race 1: Class 6 (1300M) Special Weight A / KRW 30 Million (8) BITNARA has run 3rd in both his latest two at 1300M and 1400M, racing close ...
» Remembering Clint Carlson: How a mild-mannered man in a Hawaiian shirt became the "patron saint of American horseshoes"
23/06/25 15:08 from Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal
I lost a friend on Friday. Chances are, so did you. This article is a roundabout way of introducing my readers to Clint Carlson, in case they are young enough or new enough to the horse world not to remember a shy smiling horseshoe sales...
» Three Cheers (Well, Maybe One Cheer) For HISA
23/06/25 09:04 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
If you ask someone's opinion on HISA, it's either gonna be good (rare), bad (sometimes) or ugly (most of the time). I generally like to look at things like this on a case by case basis, and in one aspect, I can clearly say I think it's g...
» Should Racing's Television Coverage "Flip the Script"?
02/06/25 10:04 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
I saw this post from NASCAR Buck Swope today. Horse racing could learn something here (but will not). The Amazon Prime race analysts and live coverage overall have energized the base by simply flipping the boogity boogity boo...
» A Message from Melissa Nolan's Husband Patrick, to Horse Racing Twitter Regarding Her Passing
27/05/25 20:13 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
With the heaviest heart I am reaching out to all who are saddened by the news of Melissa's recent passing. I've seen and heard the kindest words reflecting what Melissa never wanted to hide, that horse racing was the great passion of her...
» Thinking Through Pick n's
27/05/25 11:43 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
Good day everyone! This week on Chris's podcast , I broke down how I try and do better making pick 'n' tickets today, from yesteryear. Most of this is influenced by Inside the Pylons and the arguments that ensued on the twitter for...
» Paying Attention to Betting Markets
22/05/25 16:50 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
I think we all pay attention to betting markets in some shape or form. If the horse we like is 2-1, we think it has a good chance because the markets agree with our assessment. If a Saffie Joseph horse off the claim, picked e...
» Preakness Results Bias, Angles, Larmey, Weekend Notes
19/05/25 11:52 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
Hello everyone! A few notes from the weekend action, and various other topics. First, how about that Preakness ride on Journalism? It's been analyzed on the twitter and elsewhere, so I don't have much to add to that, but it a...
» It's Always a Good Time to Play Vertically (Even on the Derby Card)
05/05/25 13:25 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
In the age of pick 4's and 5's and 6's and TVG tickets (and ITP ire), sometimes we have FOMO in not playing them. But most times, for me anyway in this day and age, verticals are where it's at. The transparency of the markets teaches us ...
» The Racing Betting Market Gets Sharper, Even with Bombs
14/04/25 11:02 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
Great post I saw today (h/t to @dennycaps) about the favorite-longshot bias. The author looked at over 32,000 races run in Australia and New Zealand, and their expected wins by odds level at the exchange. It found what's hist...
» There's More Top-Notch Betting Content Than Ever in Racing
10/04/25 10:46 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
Hello Friends (I'm in Masters mode, sorry @barchyman). I find myself on a different horse racing betting journey than I am used to. Namely I am not grinding away in jcapper, or watching replays, looking for horses I can make ...
» How Hard is it Mentally for Bettors to Pitch the Obvious?
25/03/25 12:25 from Harness Racing Blog: Pull the Pocket
I sat down and listened to the Bet With the Best podcast yesterday, which was a (part one) revisit with warm 'n cuddly ITP. One area I think it's worth looking at again here on blog has to do with a big, huge, everything of ITP - b...