Bet on Kentucky Derby - News

If you are going to bet on the kentucky derby, then you need to get the latest news on your favorite horses and jockeys-- because two of them will work together the first Saturday in May for the Run for the Roses to win the Kentucky Derby.

Here are some good sources for racing news:

1) Daily Racing Form

2) Daily Racing News

3) Equibase

4) ESPN Sports - Horse Racing

BOT, Residents Agree on Opposition To Proposed Casino at Belmont
Grassroots group appeals to BOT for village support Floral Park residents can bet their bottom dollar that Mayor Thomas J. Tweedy and the Board of Trustees are not vying for a casino at Belmont Park. In his Mayor’s Message dated Jan. 9, Mayor Tweedy wrote, “I have worked diligently as mayor to avoid having a casino at Belmont Park, and that remains a top priority for this new year of 2012.” He ...

Floral Parkers Lead Grassroots Effort to Stop Belmont Casino
Residents initiate petition drive, letter-writing campaign to local and state officials Is a plan to erect a casino at Belmont Park a safe bet or a bust? Droves of concerned Floral Parkers filed into the United Methodist Church at a Stop the Belmont Casino community meeting on Wednesday night to discuss this hot-button issue and how any future plans for a casino at the racetrack can be stopped ...

A Shinnecock Casino At Belmont? Don’t Bet On It.
The jovial retired couple had just driven in from Stony...

History Challenge answers: Aqueduct's Withers honors one of racing's early icons
1. For years in the 19th and early 20th centuries, racetrack operators battled with “pool rooms,” which offered patrons the opportunity to bet into auction pools on horse racing and to shoot billiards while waiting for the results.

Horse Racing
Today at Santa Anita Park By Richard Eng Post Time 1 p.m. Race 1 - 1 mile, Purse $30,000, Starter allowance $40,000, Fillies, 3-year-olds 2 Teardrops On Fire - Has run 3 good races, now stretching out around 2-turns by Thunder Gulch, Belmont Stakes winner.

Countdown to the Crown: Week 5 - Feb. 3, 2012
Exclusive to DRF.com. 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.

The Hippodrome: Yo, Coach Franklin, Pump The Brakes, Buddy
This week in The 'Drome: James Franklin gets a little too excited, the Predators continue to confound the stat geeks, a cameo by President Polk… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Bucs buried by 12-point first half
Leave it to East Tennessee State to get the Belmont Bruins back on track. The Bruins held the Bucs to 12 points in the first half and cruised to an 82-70 victory Monday night in their final appearance in the Dome as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference. They will join the Ohio Valley next season.

Through The Binocs
Kentucky Derby winner and 3-year-old champion Animal Kingdom, who hasn’t raced since being injured in last year’s Belmont Stakes, worked five furlongs in :59 4/5 yesterday over the turf course at the Palm Meadows training center in Florida. His first major goal this year is the $10...

A trainer's horse whispers fall on deaf ears
BUSAN, South Korea _ Joseph Michael Murphy had the defeated look of a man on a losing streak at the track, because that's precisely what he was. So far on this sunny Sunday afternoon, the ponies just weren't cooperating. In the first race, his best bet of the day, a 7-1 shot named De Bora, had finished a dismal sixth.