Analysis Paralysis: a situation where the sheer quantity of analysis overwhelms the decision making process itself. As I wrote in my most recent blog post for the NTRA, I was determined this year to follow the simple yet profound adage “Keep It...

Photo: Phar Lap winning the 1930 Melbourne Cup Over 100,000 people on track, as well as millions of others across Australia and around the world will stop and watch the A$5.5 million AUS-G1 Melbourne Cup on Tuesday (Monday, 11 p.m. Eastern here in the...

Churchill Downs opens for its four-week Fall Meet on Sunday with a card solely of juvenile races, billed as “Stars of Tomorrow”—very catchy, I must say. I know some handicappers dislike 2-year-old races because of all the unknown factors,...

Pre-entries for the Breeders’ Cup races were announced on Wednesday, which you can view here and here. Rather than pointedly noting that half of the 14 races failed to draw full fields and reeling off a litany of top competitors who, for one reason...

G3 Red Anchor (Australia) Stakes (3A) 10:20 p.m. EDT Peter Moody-trained filly Avenue looks impossible to beat here, coming in off two impressive G3 wins and being undefeated over this track in two attempts. For the rest, it’s a battle for second,...