2010 Kentucky Derby Contenders: Jackson Bend - Kentucky Derby 2010

Jackson Bend is the newest of our 2010 Kentucky Derby contenders and this is one of the entries you’ll want to keep a close eye on.

The 2010 Kentucky Derby horse racing betting future odds are up and you can get 18/1 on Jackson Bend right now. You’ll want to take that before this weekend’s race because it’s very possible that Jackson Bend becomes the favorite if he wins the Holy Bull Stakes.

This is the one horse amongst the 2010 Kentucky Derby contenders’ potential field that produced the fastest Beyer speed figure for two turns in North America as a 2-year old, and you have to put Jackson Bend up at the top of the list along with Looking at Lucky and Buddy’s Saint.

Jackson Bend stumbled to 2nd in his first race, but has since reeled off 5 straight victories at Calder. This horse can flat out fly and proved he’s deserves to be amongst the favorites for the 2010 Kentucky Derby Betting after stumbling badly at the start of the In Reality before coming from way back to seize victory.

The Gulfstream race has Jackson Bend as the favorite, and this will be a great test to see exactly where this 3-year old fits into the Kentucky Derby picture. Other premier contenders such as Aikenite and Piscitelli are also involved and we’ll have our picks and predictions up on the day of the race.

Check out the previews for the rest of our 2010 Kentucky Derby Betting contenders before checking out the full early Kentucky Derby odds on the potential entries.

Horse Racing Worse Off Than BCS Mess

It is too bad the folks who run the BCS don't run Horse Racing Betting too. For as ridiculous a way it is that the BCS goes about crowning a so-called best college football team in the land -- an arranged marriage, I call it -- it would be an upgrade for how the monarchs in the sport of kings go about naming their best horse. This year, especially, they looked like dunces instead.

To be sure, Horse Racing chose the three-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra (pictured) on Monday night in Beverly Hills as the 2009 Horse of the Year at its Eclipse Awards, which are a sort of Oscars' handout for the horse racing game. She etched herself into the public psyche last season with a win in the Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown, against a field full of boys with that crazy Calvin Borel in her saddle. She won her other seven starts last season, including two more against nothing but boys, to finish 8-0.

With such a stellar record, she appeared impossible to argue against -- unless you were the handlers of another female, a five-year-old mare named Zenyatta. Horse Racing Betting

US Horse of the year result announced tonight – Rachel Alexandra vs Zenyatta

US Horse of the year result @ Horse Racing Betting: The results of the most highly anticipated Horse of the Year vote ever taken will be announced tonight at the Eclipse Awards banquet at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Will the winner be Rachel Alexandra or Zenyatta?

Each horse won every one of her races in 2009 – eight for Rachel Alexandra including five Grade 1 events and three against male opponents and five for Zenyatta including four Grade 1 events and the Breeders’ Cup Classic against males.

There were 232 ballots returned for the Eclipse Awards, the yearly honors for 10 divisions of thoroughbreds, one of steeplechasers and five of humans. Voters are either members of the National Turf Writers Association, employees of the Daily Racing Form or representatives of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, which includes horse betting track racing secretaries and workers at its statistical arm Equibase.

Comparing the merits of racing’s two superstars isn’t easy, and not because they didn’t race against each other.

Rachel Alexandra dominated races restricted to 3-year-old fillies in 2009, setting margin-of-victory records in both the Kentucky Oaks (20 1/4 lengths) and the Mother Goose Stakes (19 1/4 lengths).

Zenyatta’s body of work as a 5-year-old mare in 2009 wasn’t quite as impressive, because she didn’t race outside of the synthetic tracks in California and her four victories before the Breeders’ Cup Classic came against the same fillies and mares she always beats. She also enjoyed at least four weeks between each start.

The Eclipse champions are determined through voting by NTWA members, Daily Racing Form employees, NTRA-member designates and Equibase personnel, who vote for the top three in each category. Winners are based solely on first-place votes, with second- and third-place votes used to determine finalists. The exception is the Horse of the Year race. In a rule change this year, voters chose just one horse.

Read US Horse of the year news @ Horse Racing Betting

Belmont Stakes Betting – 2010 Belmont Stakes Horse Racing

2010 Belmont Stakes Betting: The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The Belmont Stakes race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes.

It is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old colts and geldings carrying a weight of 126 pounds (57 kg) and for fillies with a weight of 121 pounds (55 kg).

Because of its distance and status as the race that can make or break a Triple Crown champion, the Belmont Stakes has been the venue for some of the most famous moments in American racing.

The 2010 Belmont Stakes Horse Racing will be held at Belmont Park, New York. The date of 2010 Belmont Stakes Horse Racing Betting will start on June 5, 2010.

The Belmont Stakes, the final and most demanding leg of the Triple Crown, is named after August Belmont who had been a leading banker and racing man of the 19th century. He was also the first President of the Jockey Club in 1867. In 1869, August Belmont took first and second money with his own Fenian and Glenelg.

Belmont Stakes Information

Location: Belmont Park, Elmont, New York, United States

Inaugurated: 1867

Race type: Thoroughbred

Website: belmontstakes.com

Race information

Distance: 1½ miles (12 furlongs), Track Dirt, Left-handed

Qualification: 3-year-old

Weight: Colt/Gelding: 126 lbs (57.2 kg)

Filly: 121 lbs. (54.9 kg)

Purse: US$1 million

Bet on 2010 Belmont Stakes Betting at Sportsbetting.com

Wolverhampton Horse Racing Live Streaming – Wolverhampton Handicap 8 Jan 2010

Wolverhampton Horse Racing Live Streaming at Bet on Horses: WOLVERHAMPTON’S twilight meeting scheduled for Friday has been abandoned.

WOLVERHAMPTON officials will hold an inspection at 8.30am on Friday for its meeting that afternoon.

There was four inches of snow on the track and, although that has been cleared, the track was declared still unraceable after an inspection at 2pm on Thursday.

A spoksewoman at the course said: “The snow has been removed from the track, and we are working the track, and we will have another look in the morning.”

An inspection was held on Thursday at 2.30pm, and although the snow covering the track had been cleared, the course was still unraceable, which led to officials holding another inspection on Friday morning.

Conditions had improved again, but compacted lumps of snow and ice proved the course’s downfall, as clerk of the course Fergus Cameron explained.

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He said: “Significant improvement has been made to the track, however, there are still a number of fairly large compacted lumps of snow and ice in the track, and with temperatures not expected to get above freezing today there’s not sufficient evidence that things will improve.”

The next meeting at the course is on Monday and Cameron is hopeful of racing taking place then.

“Going forward, with temperatures expected to rise over the weekend we’d be fairly optimistic of racing on Monday,” he added.

Find out what the prospects are for forthcoming fixtures in Britain and Ireland with our at-a-glance table

Watch Wolverhampton Horse Racing Live Streaming at Horse Racing Betting

Southwell Horse Racing Handicapping January 7, 2010 Thursday

Southwell Horse Racing Handicapping at Bet on Horses: WITH Thursday’s three jumps fixtures already abandoned in Britain and Ireland and inspections planned for the all-weather cards at Lingfield and Kempton, racing is at least expected to take place at Southwell, the remaining meeting of the day.

Southwell’s clerk of the course, Roderick Duncan, said the card was certain to go ahead, with determined trainers from across the country making their way to the fibresand track on Wednesday afternoon.

Duncan said on Wednesday afternoon: “I’m absolutely confident we’ll race tomorrow. We had substantial snowfall early this morning and we set to work clearing the track.

“We then began clearing the public areas and access roads at 6am and they are now clear. We’ve had horses galloping today and all the reports we’ve had are that the ground is riding well.”

Southwell Horse Racing Handicapping at Bet on Horses

Kempton and Lingfield’s ‘all-weather’ race meetings on Thursday have been called off due to a potential shortage of ambulances at the courses.

Southwell goes ahead, but Saturday’s card at Ffos Las, featuring the Welsh Champion Hurdle, has also fallen victim to the freezing weather conditions.

Saturday’s fixture at Leopardstown, near Dublin, and Monday’s meetings at Taunton and Ayr are off.

It is likely there will be no jump racing over the next seven days.

Thursday’s meetings at Ludlow and Huntingdon were earlier victims of the big freeze.

Lingfield’s Thursday card was one of the additional fixtures provided by the British Horseracing Authority to make up the shortfall, along with Southwell (Friday) and Kempton (Saturday).

Check out the Horse Racing Betting fixtures for January 7th’s Southwell Horse Racing