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TwinSpires' Derek Simon discusses track bias, with an assist from "Betting Thoroughbreds" author Steve Davidowitz. In the U...

Host Derek Simon recaps the 2014 Breeders’ Cup and uses his speed rations (pace figures) to answer the burning question: “Was there a spe...

Derek Simon of TwinSpires.com and Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com preview the 2014 Breeders’ Cup races and Ed gives out his weekend "single...

In the News & Notes segment, host Derek Simon discusses the top stories in the Sport of Kings, including a new claiming rule in New York...

Host Derek Simon recaps "Super Saturday" and offers a bevy of Breeders' Cup stats sure to cure insomnia. * What BC race b...

In the News & Notes segment, host Derek Simon discusses a great article in The Guardian entitled “ Scratching the surface: US racin...

Host Derek Simon discusses the announced closing of Suffolk Downs after 79 years of hosting thoroughbred racing, relating it to the closin...

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September’s stay in Canada ensues as Mohawk stays the center of attraction with the sport’s top events of the week. Frosh trotters of bot...

The weekend began on Friday, Sept 6 with a lightning storm so intense that Mohawk cancelled its program. With it went the eliminations fo...

As September enters its first weekend, we stay in Canada for a number of Grand Circuit (GC) stakes at Mohawk. There are numerous co-star...

Mohawk shared this weekend’s highlights with Vernon and featured some of the biggest names of the season from divisions young to old. How...

August harness racing is about to reach a peak in its finale as the three-day weekend, which unofficially ends the summer season, arriv...

TwinSpires' Derek Simon recaps the Travers Stakes and the Pacific Classic and discusses the role of a jockey in the “I Need to Know...

With all of the stakes action focused at Mohawk this weekend, we found some fair prices on some obvious contenders that won. Next Saturda...

TwinSpires' Derek Simon discusses a Paulick Report piece on potential pool manipulation at Thistledown (say that three times fast) and...

Despite what various racetrack touts and system peddlers say, one of the things that makes consistently beating the races so tough is tha...