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Delaware Park
16
Jun
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • handicapping
  • Jaime Rodriguez
  • Jamie Ness

Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook 2021 Vol. 3

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 3
  • 4 min read

Our Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook — featuring races and horses to watch, track bias info, jock/trainer of the week, and more – returns for 2021.

Delaware Park
08
Jun
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • handicapping
  • Jaime Rodriguez
  • Jamie Ness

Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook 2021 Vol. 2

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Our Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook — featuring races and horses to watch, track bias info, jock/trainer of the week, and more – returns for 2021.

Delaware Park
03
Jun
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • handicapping
  • Jaime Rodriguez
  • Jamie Ness

Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook 2021 Vol. 1

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 5
  • 4 min read

Our Delaware Park Handicappers’ Notebook — featuring races and horses to watch, track bias info, jock/trainer of the week, and more – returns for 2021.

Aftercare Charles Town
26
May
  • Aftercare Charles Town
  • Beyond the Wire
  • Jessica Hammond
  • Kim Clark
  • Michele Kuegler
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Off the Pace
  • Wasabi Venture Stables

Off the Pace: The aftercare challenge

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

In a new “Off the Pace”: What to do with end-of-career horses is a problem with many causes, and many solutions, and people working to enact them.

Trevor McCarthy with Tiz He the One
06
May
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Trevor McCarthy

Q and A: Trevor McCarthy off to California

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 4
  • 4 min read

Jockey Trevor McCarthy will shift his tack to Southern California later this month, and our Mike Valiante caught up with him.

Beth Worton
28
Apr
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Off the Pace

Off the Pace: What racing should do yesterday Pt. 3

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 5
  • 5 min read

In a new “Off the Pace,” Mike Valiante concludes his three-part series on what racing must do to prepare for the future by sharing his own ideas.

13
Apr
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Off the Pace

Off the Pace: What racing should do yesterday Pt. 2

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 9
  • 4 min read

In a new “Off the Pace,” Mike Valiante asks bettors for the one change they would make to improve the racing industry.

31
Mar
  • Andrew Simoff
  • Chris Brown
  • Off the Pace
  • TK Kuegler
  • Trevor McCarthy
  • Tyler Conner

Off the Pace: What racing should do… yesterday

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 7
  • 4 min read

In a new “Off the Pace,” Mike Valiante kicks off a series focused on 10 actions items so important that the racing industry should have done them yesterday.

Alexander Chavez
18
Mar
  • Laurel Park
  • Off the Pace

Off the Pace: Spring training

  • Mike Valiante / 5 years
  • 7
  • 4 min read

New to the site Mike Valiante, says the first day back at a racetrack gives him the same feeling as an old baseball player at the start of spring training.

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