This Saturday the weekly and free-to-enter Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest will feature racing at Gulfstream Park including the Florida Derby, a crucial stepping stone to the The First Saturday in May. Also Saturday is an additional Derby prep race, the Jeff Ruby Steaks, from Turfway Park. Contest rules are here. Come to the Racebook, pick one horse in each race at Gulfstream and in the Jeff Ruby and submit the entry card. Friday entry is available for those that cannot make it Saturday. Entry deadline on Saturday is 10:30am.
Points are awarded based on mutuel payouts. Prizes are awarded weekly to the top five point earners. The top three each week also earn entry to an exclusive contest that will send one player to the $3 million National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas in January 2022.
The Florida Derby features top Kentucky Derby contender Greatest Honour, winner of the Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth Stakes.
Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 5
March 26th – March 28th, 2021
The final future wager pool opens Friday at noon and remains open until 5pm Sunday, March 28.
Dubai World Cup this Saturday
We have come a long way since the inaugural Dubai World Cup in March of 1996. The previous
year, Cigar had taken the racing world by storm, winning eight grade 1 races including the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He won the 1996 Donn Handicap and headed to Dubai to compete in a race offering an unimaginable $4 million purse.
The Canterbury Racebook was packed. It was a Wednesday morning. A Wednesday morning, and the place was packed and full of anticipation to watch Cigar in the richest race in the world. This was before internet betting and watching races on a hand held device. People actually got together to talk and argue horse races and share an experience; even on a Wednesday morning.
For those not familiar or too young to remember, Cigar did not disappoint that morning.
You can hit our Racebook early this Saturday for the $12 million Dubai World Cup! We will have the coffee on. It is time to start sharing these experiences once again.
Some of the world’s best horses will compete at Meydan Racecourse for total purses of $35 million.
• Racebook opens at 5:30 A.M. for self-service only
• First Post 5:45 A.M. CT
• Club info open at 7 A.M.
