Videos tagged with "figures"

Equibase Speed Figures - A 25 Minute Seminar [26:13]
This seminar describes how Equibase Speed Figures and related ratings (Pace and Class) are derived for Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse Racing.

The PAP Daily Double Preview: Brooklyn/Belmont Stakes Double (06/08-09/12) [31:57]
Ray Gordon Analyzes the Brooklyn/Belmont Stakes double at Belmont Park for Friday, June 8, 2012 (and Saturday, June 9, 2012) Ticket: $1.00 dd 4-10/2-4-9-11
Tags: Belmotn, Stakes, Preakness, Kentucky, Derby, I'll, Have, Another, Triple, Crown, Aqueduct, Saratoga, Free, Horse, Racing, Sele, Selections, Value, Handicapping, trip, speed, figures, class, pedigree, breeding.

Steven Crist and Mike Watchmaker: How to use sped figures [04:03]
Steven Crist and Mike Watchmaker explain what speed figures are and how to apply them to handicap a horse race.
Tags: beyer speed figures, daily racing form, steven crist, mike watchmaker, horse racing, handicapping

Frankel - Newmarket (The Rowley Mile) - The Dewhurst Stakes (Group 1) 7f (2yo) [04:31]
The coming together of the unbeaten Frankel, Dream Ahead and Saamidd made this one of the most eagerly awaited 2yo races for a long time, and though the battle between the 3 failed to materialize, the last 2 running well below expectations, it still took a high-class effort from Frankel to prevail, bettered only by New Approach in this race in recent times, and the form is underpinned by an excellent timefigure. FRANKEL completed the perfect season, beating everything put in front of him so far, looking every inch a champion and achieving the ratings--including timefigures--to match, even though this wasn't quite the anticipated acid test with Dream Ahead and Saamidd disappointing; all the same, it didn't go smoothly for Frankel as a bump departing the stall left him last and lit up, not settling at all, and that he still cruised through before asserting under a hand ride says it all about his exceptional talent, as well as his standing potential, unextended all along and physically the type to make an even better 3-yo; though it's a long way off, the Guineas is at his mercy, reportedly set for a spring prep run, understandable if only to get the freshness out of him, as his natural exuberance (always wears crossed noseband) is the only apparent chink in his armour so far, not that it held him back here, nor would it in the Guineas, but getting him to stretch to the Derby trip may be another matter; Timeform's highest-rated 2-yo in Europe since Xaar in 1997, Frankel has ...
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1998 Thoroughbred Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees [02:21]
Ansel Williamson, the onetime slave who trained the first winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1875, was inducted into the thoroughbred Hall of Fame today as a legend of racing's past. He was joined by 45-year-old Bill Mott, who saddled Cigar and is a legend of the present, the youngest trainer ever enshrined. ''It came awfully early in life,'' Mott said, sounding a bit awed. ''It was never planned; it was never expected.'' Racing put its best foot forward for its 43d annual ceremony, which attracted a standing-room crowd of 1200 under a tent pitched on a field next to the National Museum of Racing across Union Avenue from the Saratoga Race Course, which is booming in its 130th year. Dozens of famous trainers and jockeys of the past sat together as footnotes to history, applauding the six racing figures being honored. Besides Williamson and Mott, they were Jacinto Vasquez, the jockey who rode 5231 winners, won the Kentucky Derby twice and won 268 stakes races, and three celebrated horses: Riva Ridge, the stablemate of Secretariat and the juvenile champion of 1971, who went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes in 1972; Bayakoa, the Argentine filly, who became a double champion in the United States by winning 16 of her 21 starts in 1989 and 1990, and Fort Marcy, three times a champion on grass and Horse of the Year for his exploits in 1970. They brought the Hall of Fame roster to 77 jockeys, 71 trainers and 154 horses. But few have been honored as early as Bill ...
Tags: horse, racing, saratoga, hall, of, fame, riva, ridge, jacinto, vasquez, bayakoa, bill, mott