Horse Racing Thread

Anyone interested in the horses? I'm from the UK so I follow UK racing more but I do watch the big international/USA races as well

One of the £1M questions on WWTBAM over here years ago was a USA horse racing question, got to assume it would've been an early question in the USA version as it was easy as pie lol

Anyway bring on the Cheltenham Festival!

I got (A) before they put up the rest of the options.

I love the ponies. Just like watching them run even if I'm not bettng on them. Wish horse racing got more love on these forums.

I've got a 3 week vacation planned around golf, horse track, casino in no particular order in Ruidoso NM later this summer when it's 100+ degrees Fahrenheit where I live. 80 degree days and 60s at nights there. Can't wait.

Nice, sounds good!

I'll be at the Grand National next month, I alternate between going to Cheltenham Gold Cup/Grand National every year, always get lucky and win a few bob but it all gets spent on the ridiculous priced beer lol

Also yeah I wish horse racing got more love on here, no idea why it's not that popular

me too lol

RIP Arlington btw...that was the track I grew up betting

there is a horse betting thread over in the Sports Betting but it doesn't get much traffic these days

also there is a Triple Crown races thread here but it doesn't see much activity other than around Kentucky Derby time (1st Saturday in May)

Hi this is my new thread

Not a horse racing fan but that was some race POG. Wow what a finish. That horse saw daylight on the inside and shot through like a bullet. Everyone else was in slow motion. Watched it like 5 times.

great race and well timed by borel. lol call by tom durkin, doesn't say MTB's name until he's well clear and a few strides from the finish

2009 and 2010 breeders cup classics always get me with infinite replay value. i keep thinking maybe somehow 2010 will end differently if i replay it one more time. mike smith is bad and should feel bad. zenyatta and denman respective goats.

Happy Derby day! Long time, no post. Hope everyone is well and gl today!

Dug a deep hole already

Forever Young or bust

never trust a chad brown horse on dirt

usually prefer longshots in the derby but fierceness at 5/2 looks pretty good

love the names. forever young is a great one, but stronghold.. look out. no action, no spare coins right now. will watch. good luck guys

I've backed Stronghold ew 4pl @28/1 gl all

fun race, chad brown proved me wrong.. best horse that race. great ride by hernandez. lol'd when larry colmus said "they're not flying" after 22.8 quarter and 46.8 half at 10 furlongs.

Ha I bet Mystik Dan at the last second on a lark. I did it on the "mystical angle" on the heels of Mage last year, in which a psychic type I met on line picked Mage (meaning "magic") in her first ever Derby bet. Anyway it barely covered a bunch of exotics we were pooling. Oh well, you win some you lose some. I waxed last night at Louisville Caesars about a possible dead heat in the Derby, with my Derby chip card guard and Churchill Downs scratch pad. Almost. That's only my second Derby winner ever, I think.

Grats on the win. Fun race, those two in the middle ran him down but ran out time.

What a finish! So much drama.

There we go. Running hot on derby donking.

Secretariat wins by twenty lengths. Literally.

Damned impressive for a horse that's been dead for 35 years. Literally.

Wow no love or interest for the Preakness on here. This lady that picked the Derby winner long shot Mage last year in her first ever horse bet, this year her Derby pick Just a Touch finished dead last. That's so classic I played her pick for the Preakness: Seize the Grey. Got 13/1. Cha-ching.

Fun race in a little mud! 2570 owners of the winner!

My dogs watched it like someone with Alzheimer's. They enjoyed the replay as much as the live showing--apparently had no idea it was the same race.