Twilight racing returns for Friday, September 4th, at Saratoga. The 2:30 post time means plenty of extra time to ponder your racing selections. Be sure to check out:
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Twilight racing returns for Friday, September 4th, at Saratoga. The 2:30 post time means plenty of extra time to ponder your racing selections. Be sure to check out:
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Big Pick-6 Carryover starts the week at Belmont. Paulie's Picks for the carryover would be a great way to start your Breeders' Cup weekend.
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Closing day of the Saratoga meet today.
Best Bet: Race 8, Number 3 - Dynaforce
Win Total: $28.10
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The penultimate day of racing at Saratoga, and the ultimate day of August.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, August 31.
Best Bet: Race 10, Number 8 - Mani Bhavan - Winner $3.40
Win Total - $15.80
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Curlin returns to the track in the Grade 1 Woodward.
Paulie's Picks for August 30, 2008.
Best Bet: Race 3, Number 5 - Rollers
Win Total: $11.20
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Twilight racing returns to Saratoga with a 2:45. A full card follows, finishing in time to slide in to Saratoga and enjoy the great night-life. (Like Indian cuisine? Try Karavallis, around the corner from the Parting Glass in downtown Saratoga. They serve regional specialties from across India, large portions, and incredible flavors.)
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, August 29
Best Bet: Race 6, Number 8 - Smokin Hero
Win Total - $24.10
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The last Thursday of the 2008 meet finishes the steeplechase racing with the NY Turf Writers Cup.
Get picks for all of the racing at action with Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Thursday August 28.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 5, Silver Knockers - Winner $4.40
Win Total - $13.60
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The final week of the 6 week Saratoga meet begins Wednesday with a 10 race card including an exciting Steeplechase event to start the day.
Paulie's Picks for Wednesday, August 27.
Best Bet: Race 9, Number 4 - Excess Capital
Win Total: $27.80
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The 5th week at Saratoga Race Course concludes Monday with a full card of action.
Paulie's Picks for Monday August 25th at Saratoga Race Course
Best Bet: Race 9, Number 1A, Talking Treasure - Winner
Win Total: $20.50
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The Travers 2008 edition is in the record books. Hope you had the winner. Racing continues for another week at Saratoga, though, and there's plenty of good races yet to be run. The rest of the best starts Sunday.
Here are Paulie's Picks for Sunday, August 24.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 1: Splash of Colour
Win Total: $21.30
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Travers Day is here, the biggest day of racing at the fantastic Saratoga meet. Who will win the Midsummer Derby this year? Paulie's Picks says........ - Court Vision?
A great day of racing at the Spa. Enjoy it more with Paulie's Picks.
Best Bet: Race 8, Number 5 - Indyanne
Win Total: $17.20
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Friday August 22 features the Personal Ensign, one of the top races in the country for fillies and mares. Will Ginger Punch prevail? Or will the Unbridled Belle bring on the upset?
Find out with Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Friday, August 22.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 1: Cocktail Attire - 2nd
Win Total: $5.30
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Steeplechase stakes start the card for the 21st of August at Saratoga, and the Ballston Spa Handicap for fillies and mares highlights a good mid-week card.
Picks for the card from Paulie's Picks.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 2 - My Cousin Matt - Last :-(
Win Total: $12.70
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Travers week heats up with Wednesday's card, featuring Tin Cup Chalice going for a $1 Million bonus in the Albany Stakes.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Wednesday, August 20.
Best Bet: Race 9, Number 6 - Tin Cup Chalice - Winner - $6.70
Win Total: $22.70
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The 4th week of racing comes to an end with Monday's edition of racing from Saratoga Race Course.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Monday, August 18
Best Bet: Race 10, Number 8 - Multidude
Win Total: $2.70
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Sunday, August 17 marks the beginning of the Travers festival at Saratoga race course, and of course there's going to be some fantastic racing. The feature is the John's Call, carded for 4 year olds and up at 1 5/8 mile on the turf. Should be a very interesting 3-turn race.
All of the races, all of the horses, all of the time. Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Sunday, August 17.
Best Bet: Race 3, Number 4 - Mucho Macho - 3rd
Win Total: $28.40
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Alabama day at Saratoga features a full card and some nicer weather, they say, finally.
Paulie's Picks for Saturday, August 16.
Best Bet: Race 1, Number 3 - Joppa Flats - 3rd
Win Total: $14.40
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Alabama weekend gets off to a big start as the weather appears to finally break.
Paulie' picks for Friday, August 15th, at Saratoga.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 3 - Red Seven - 5th
Win Total: $24.60
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Steeple chase racing returns with a early stakes race to start off the day, then the Saratoga Special for 2 year olds as the feature.
Enjoy the day at the track with Paulie's Picks, selections for the full card at Saratoga.
Best Bet: Race 10, Number 12 - Chicks Are Better - Winner - $4.60
Win Total: $17.30
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Steeplechasing returns to Saratoga Race Course for Wednesday, August, 13, as the 2nd half of the Saratoga meet starts in style.
Paulie's Picks: selections for every race on the Saratoga card.
Best Best: Race 3, Number 1 - Temporary Saint - 2nd
Best Longshot: Race 9, Number 3 - Doremifasolatido (think Julie Andrews, then SING!) - 2nd
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Monday marks the end of the first half of the Saratoga meet. The weather continues to be variable, with rain then sun then rain then sun....you get the picture. The racing has been strong, though, and it will be a good day to extend your weekend and get out to the track.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Monday, August 11
Best Bet: Race 8, Number 2, Wishful Tomcat - Winner - $6.30
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Sunday at Saratoga promises to be one of the most pleasant summer days of the season, with little need for A/C as temperatures top out in the high 70's. Two well-regarded NY-Bred stakes races highlight the card, as the rescheduled Yaddo and the West Point will be contested over the turf course. It should be a beautiful day to be at the track.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga Race Course, Sunday, August 10.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 3 - Precursor - 3rd
Best Longshot: Race 7, Number 7 - Key Event - Scratched
Total Win: $33.30
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Racing was cancelled after the 2nd race on Friday after a viscious storm raked Saratoga Springs. Saturday's weather is expected to be better, and there's an 11 race card to excite thoroughbred fans. Get all of the Paulie's Picks selections for Saturday, featuring great NY Bred racing all day.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 3: Eternal Star - Winner $6.90
Win Total: $15.30
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Lucky 8's all around for 8/8/08 at Saratoga Race Course. How about the 1-8 exacta in the 1st? The 4-8 in the 5th? The 7-8 in the 7th? Or the 12-8 in the 10th? See how all of the 8's are rolling in Paulie's Picks for Saratoga Race Course for Friday, August 8, 2008.
Best Bet: Race 10, Number 12 - Wishful Tomcat
Best Longshot: Race 2, Number 5 - Dove Nest - 2nd
Racing cancelled after 2nd race due to wicked storms.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Racing at Saratoga starts with a 1 O'Clock post time for the Grade II A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase, a fantastic race featuring the top horses over hurdles you'll see in the U.S. What a treat. Later in the day, enjoy our locally bred fillies running in the New York Stallion Series Statue of Liberty stakes on the turf. This is the only chance for these 3 year old fillies to shine in this race, so cheer them on!
Paulie's Picks for the Saratoga August 7 card.
Best Bet: Race 9, Number 3 - I Lost My Choo
Best Longshot: Race 7, Number 8 - Seasons Wise
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Saratoga Race Course's 3rd week of the 2008 season opens Wednesday, August 6, with a 10-race card. Enjoy a day at the track with Paulie's Picks, handicapping selections for the entire card, with every race, and every horse rated.
Best Bet: Race 9, 1/1A - Almighty Silver/Cannonball
Best Longshot: Race 1, 1, Clay County - 2nd
Total Win - $37.60
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Click here for Paulie's Picks: Selections and rankings for Saratoga Race Course, Monday, August 4, 2000
Best Bet: Race 1, Number 8 - Hostile Takeover
Best Longshot: Race 10, Number 1 - One Tough Belle
Total Win - $15.20
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Sunday August 3 at Saratoga Race Course is give-away day. This year NYRA will be giving away a handsome black T-Shirt. Come out to the track to pick one up. The weather isn't nearly as bad as everyone says.
Use Paulie's Picks to help decipher the day's races.
Best Bet: Race 3, Number 1: Sightseeing
Best Longshot: Race 11, Number 9: Bartletts
Win total: $15.90
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Saturday features the Test for 3 year olds filles, a great historic stake race, and the highlight of an 11 race card.
Use Paulie's Picks for the Saratoga Race Card, August 2. Paulie's Picks is a great way to get you oriented on each race, gives you an overview of each race, helps tab key speed and pace players, and makes it easier to enjoy a day of racing.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 5, Lovely Isle
Win Total: $12.70
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Now's the time to visit Saratoga, The August Place to Be. There's racing througout the month of August, including a 10-race card Friday, August 1st.
Paulie's Picks has selections for every race for Saratoga Race Course, August 1st.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 3, Afleet Aya - 2nd
Total Win: $32.10
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Thursday, July 31 brings steeplechase racing back to Saratoga for the 2nd day in the row. Get to the track for the first race to see one of the best spectacles on the turf.
For handicapping advice, here are Paulie's Picks for the the 31st.
Best Bet: Race 9,. Number 3, Stunt Man.
Win Total: $31.70
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The 2nd week of racing starts at Saratoga Race Course starts Wednesday, July 30, with a 10 race mid-week early meet card. See all the selections with Paulie's Picks.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 8 Akilina - Winner!
Total Win: $33.30
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The first week at Saratoga Racetrack comes to a close with another graded stakes; today it's the Grade 2 Amsterdam for the 3 year-old sprinters. Expect a fast race as the top dashers of this generation compete among themselves for one of the last times before being set out against older horses. Desert Key looks to be the fastest of these, but with a good deal of pace in the race, don't be surprised to see a closer such as Kodiak Kowboy or Devereux getting up for a piece of the pie.
Paulie's Picks for Saratoga, Monday July 28
Best Bet: Kodiak Kowboy (Race 9, Number 3).
Best Longshot: Mamie B (Race 10, Number 15, if she draws in)
Total: $4.40
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Del Mar race track goes into racing Sunday with a Pick-6 Carryover of $1,561,987. Expect the final pot to exceed $3 Million. Paulie's Picks for Del Mar is a great place to start your handicapping for this very exciting opportunity at a big purse.
Small better? Don't waste your money picking favorites. Find a few to take a stand against if you want to be in line for a big payout. You can't afford to spread out with the favorites, and all the other cash-poor players will pile on the favorites, too. Look at horses like Schaghticoke Hill in the 9th, Barbecue Eddie in the 8th, and Smooth and Savvy and Top Emblem in the 7th to put some juice in your tickets.
This is a wide-open card, so take a stab at a big payout.
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Sunday brings Jim Dandy day to the spa, the traditional prep over the track for the 3 year-olds aiming for the Travers later in the meet. The 2008 return includes Belmont winner Da' Tara, Preakness runner up Macho Again, and well regarded Derby contenders Anak Nakal, Tale of Ekati, and Pyro. Don't just play the featured 9th, though. Paulie's Picks has the full card.
Best Bet: Race 4, Number 9, Mithaal
Best Longshot: Race 7, Number 6, Kitty Nip
Win Total: $13.10
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Saturday is a big-BIG day at Saratoga, with 4 graded stakes and $1.75 Million dollars (plus) in purse money on the line. The features today include the Whitney, A.G. Vanderbilt, Diana, and Go For Wand. Wow! 11 races on the card, and a lovely day in the forecast. Let Paulie's Picks be your guide for all of the great racing on tap this first weekend of the meet.
Best Bet: Race 9, number 1, Ginger Punch. - Winner
Best Longshot: Race 7, number 3, Bayou's Lassie
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The first Friday of the meet is a great time to get up to Saratoga, enjoy the racing, then enjoy a fine dinner on the town. Go to the track with confidence with Paulie's Picks to sort them out.
Best Bet: Race 2, Number 1: Join In The Dance - Winner - $8.80
Total Win: $21.30
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The second day at Saratoga used to be bobblehead day. Now that everyone has their very own Edgar Prado, John Velazquez, and Sam the Bugler shaking around the house, it's just Thursday.
There is no steeplechase race 1, it has been cancelled.
Paulie's Picks for Thursday, July 24.
Best Bet: Race 5, No 1. Market at Midday - 3rd
Race 6: Top 2 Exacta: $58.00
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Paulie's Picks returns for 2008 with selections and rankings for the opening day races, Wednesday, July 23. This year promises to be one of the best ever, with exciting enhancements on track and off. Purses are up, and NYRA has created incentives for larger fields for longer route races. A new restaurant row is available, also, featuring Saratoga stalwarts Hattie's Chicken Shack, One Caroline, and others.
Best Bet: Accredit (Race 3, No. 1) - Winner
Best Longshot: Johnie Bye Night (Race 8, No. 8). - 2nd behind first choice.
Total: $11.50
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Paulie's Picks returns for 2008 with daily selections for the Saratoga Race Course meet. Selections are generally available the evening before the next day's racing. Generated from 100's of statistical measures culled from 10's of 1,000's of races, Paulie's Picks provides one of the most comprehensive handicapping tools available today.
Check back daily for picks and results, or subscribe to this feed to receive updates as soon as new picks are available.
Best of luck, and enjoy the 2008 racing season.
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Special carryover days on lazy weekends can only be better with Paulie's Picks. Good luck on the big Pick-6!
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HiBigBoy, a Harlequin Farm-bred, makes his debut at Belmont Park on Wednesday, July 2, in the 5th race. He is number 2 in the field of 8 maiden NY Breds. Morning line odds are not out (as of Sunday evening), but he's sure not to be the favorite with Blazing Buddha and Tough Jake coming in off of well contested placings last out. Paulie's Picks has him 4th of 8, and first among the firsters.
Off his scintillating work Saturday (48.14, 5/44, from the gate), it's a very positive sign that he's been wheeled back to start 4 days later. Another positive sign is that the trainer's son-in-law, 2-time Eclipse award winner, and bobble-head model, John Velazquez, has taken the mount. HiBigBoy's trainer, Leo O'Brien, has trained top horses in the past, including champion Yank's Music, Irish 2000 Guineas winner Fourstars Allstar, and perennial Saratoga favorite Fourstardave.
Leo is not known as trainer of first time winners, but the one I couldtrack down had similarly strong works before heading to the track.
Post time is approximately 3:06 PM EDT.
Update: 6th. However, he had a fine move in the middle to close a 20.5 length deficit to an 11 length deficit before being passed for 6th.
Paulie's Picks had a $37.20 day, with the $21.00 winner of the 7th, $10.60 in the 6th, and $5.60 in the 2nd.
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It's Triple Crown fever time. Will Big Brown complete the Test of the Champion? Paulie's Picks knows, and Paulie has some thoughts on the rest of the card, as well as some surprises for the Belmont.
Update: Casino Drive scratched from the Belmont Stakes. Paulie's Picks have been updated to reflect this important defection.
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For most, it's a little late for Mother's Day. For me, I'm a little early in getting a present out. My Mother is going to have a fine day at Churchill down the road in Louisville. Here's the spirit of Paulie to help her out.
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Toot Toot! That's Paulie's horn and we're proud to toot it after a fantastic day with Paulie's Picks. The obvious first: Big Brown the clear favorite picked for the Preakness, but what Macho Again as Paulie's 3rd pick? Did you put that together in your exacta? We did ;-)
But, as often has been the case, look at the results on the entire card: 13 races, 7 top choices won. OK, so there was a lot of chalk. But at least it was clear that the chalk was deserved.
Now, on to Belmont! It won't be the same race, with Casino Drive shipping in for the family three-peat. But Big Brown didn't actually race, what you saw was more of a public work out. There'll be plenty of horse to hit the track, and at least he'll have to prove himself to get the big triple crown cheese.
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It's Preakness time again, and the question on everyone's mind is "can Big Brown" repeat. Paulie knows, so check out his Preakness Selections, and the rest of the Preakness undercard.
Have a great day at the races!
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It's back! The Kentucky Derby of 2008. Paulie's Picks says......
Full cards for both races, just click...and see ;-)
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The Breeders' Cup is a twp-day affair this year, with races Friday and Saturday. The bulk of racing is the traditional Saturday races, 8 Breeders' Cup events, starting with the 4th race. Breeders' Cup selections from Paulie's Picks for Saturday.
Friday selections covering the entire Monmouth card, including the Breeders' Cup events, which start with Race 8. The Friday races are non-graded, as they have never been run before, and the Graded Stakes Committee declined to give them special consideration.
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Top level racing today 3 Grade 1 Races; The Man O'War, The Garden City Breeders' Cup, and The Ruffian. (Floral Park is the Garden City, just to the East of the Belmont Park grounds.) Paulie's Picks for the Belmont Park Card.
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