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Big-Race Showdown: Sword Dancer, Travers, Pat O'Brien Stakes Selections

For the sixth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2022 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big Race Showdown.”

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Betting the Ballerina Handicap Using an Exacta and Trifecta Strategy

Despite drawing only seven runners, the $500,000 Ballerina Handicap features an abundance of depth and quality with three Grade 1 winners, three graded stakes winners, and a budding star riding the crest of a four-race winning streak.

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2022 Pat O'Brien Stakes at a Glance

More than a $250,000 purse and Grade 2 laurels will be on the line Saturday when 10 top-notch runners clash at Del Mar in the Pat O’Brien Stakes. A plane ticket to the East and a free spot in the Breeders’ Cup will be awarded to the winner, though not to the race at the World Championships that one might expect.

Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings for Aug. 24

Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2022 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Cyberknife’s Owner Gold is Thankful, Humble, and Hopeful Heading into Travers

Owner Al Gold became known for providing his horses with whimsical names. Meet the Mets, Geaux Mets, and Cleon Jones saluted his favorite baseball team. Then there was My Italian Rabbi and Who Hoo Thats Me.

And now there is two-time Grade 1 winner Cyberknife, named after the non-invasive advanced radiation therapy that allowed Gold to return to good health after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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