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• Preakness Stakes Picks - "Maryland, My Maryland" will ring loudly on Saturday, as twelve champion three year olds will run 1 3/16 miles at the storied racetrack of Pimlico. The 135th Preakness Stakes has horse racing betting action junkies ready to rock and roll! Here at Bang the Book, we've got all of the insight that you need to keep an eye on before heading to the mutuels and placing your bets on the big race!

• Preakness Horses - Horse by Horse previews and past race history for all the horse in the Preakness Stakes

• Preakness Stakes Odds - Super Saver (+250) is a legitimate speed horse, but lost his first two races as a three-year-old (Tampa Bay Derby, Arkansas Derby). He was ridden to perfection by Calvin Borel in the Kentucky Derby, the jockey's third Derby win in four years.

• Preakness Stakes Post Positions - The draw was determined by a traditional "pill pull" in which horses' entry blanks are pulled simultaneously with a numbered pill to determine which stall a horse is assigned in the starting gate.

• Kentucky Derby Picks - The 136th Kentucky Derby has a post time of just after 6:00 PM ET on Saturday, and horse racing fans from all corners of the earth will get together to watch the "Fastest Two Minutes in Sports." Here at Bang the Book though, we realize that not everyone can sit down and analyze which horses are ripe for the betting. That's why we're here, breaking down the Run for the Roses in hopes of finding you some major winners on the track at Churchill Downs!

• Kentucky Derby Post Positions - Kentucky Derby Post Positions for 2010 was finally announced! The most exciting two minutes in sports is here! Of course, as the 2010 Kentucky Derby is fast approaching, everybody's

• Kentucky Derby Betting Tips - Sometimes, the Kentucky Derby odds-on favorite really is the best horse; sometimes, not so much. In the last decade, the favorite has won the Run for the Roses four times -- and finished seventh three times

• Kentucky Derby Odds - The unfortunate foot injury of Eskendereya has paved the way for an exciting 136th running of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. Here’s the latest odds from BroburySports.com

• Kentucky Derby Horses - horse by horse previews for the upcoming kentucky derby!

• Oh What a Tangled Web These Breeders Cup Races Weave - There are so many Breeders’ Cup races this weekend I didn’t know where to start. I began handicapping last week to get a jump on the 11 races spread over two days beginning Friday at Monmouth Park

• How Monmouth Played in 2007 Dirt Turf Routes - Nine of the 11 Breeders’ Cup races during the two-day $23 million spectacular that begins Oct. 26 at Monmouth Park are routes, including four on the turf.

• Speed Is Name of the Game on Monmouth’s Dirt Track - “Calling it speed-favoring doesn’t do it justice and the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint will look more like a top-fuel eliminator.” Through July 21, according to Brisnet.com, 40 percent of winners in 191 races at six furlongs (distance for BC Sprint and Filly & Mare Sprint) went wire to wire. By the time the 62nd meeting was history on September 2, winners that led at every call captured 40 percent of more than 300 races.

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• Breeders Cup Classic - The Road to the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Thoroughbred World Championships in Oceanport, N.J., goes through several towns, among them Florence, Ky., and Elmont, N.Y.

• Horses To Watch 9/24 -

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• Belmont Gateway to the Breeders’ Cup at Monmouth - The 33-day Belmont Park fall meeting features stakes galore, including final preps for thoroughbreds hoping to qualify for Breeders’ Cup races next month at Monmouth Park.

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• Street Sense - Shortly after the Triple Crown races ended in June, there was talk of the three winners meeting in a stakes race and, ultimately, in the Breeders Cup Classic.

• Horses To Watch 8/13 -

• King of California Tracks Heads Pacific Classic Field - Lava Man has gone where no horse has gone before on the Left Coast. Last year he became the first thoroughbred to win the Golden State’s Big 3 stakes in the same year.

• Arlington Million - The Tin Man is primed to defend his Arlington Million title and become the only horse to record back-to-back victories in its 25-year history

• Horses To Watch 8/6 -

• Haskell Invitational - The 40th Haskell Invitational has attracted a slew of stakes winners, including Curlin, victorious in the Preakness

• Whitney Handicap - The Whitney Handicap isn very old compared to other Saratoga stakes like the Travers. When Black Mania won the inaugural in 1928, Petee-Wrack captured the 64th Travers

• Saratoga @ The Spa - It was held as an experiment. Well, the experiment, four days at Saratoga Raceway that began Aug. 3, 1863, was a huge success.

• Horses To Watch 7/24 -

• Eighth Sumit of Speed - The nation’s richest day for thoroughbred sprinters is Saturday at Calder Race Course where the eighth Summit of Speed features eight stakes worth $2 million.

• Horses To Watch 7/16

• Horses To Watch 7/2