Favorites Fall, Longshot Flies - Progress Pace Field Decided

Favorites fall, Longshot flies - Progress Pace field decided

DOVER, Del. — Matron Stakes winner Dandy Ideal (American Ideal) and Meadowlands Pace winner Madden Oaks (Huntsville) punched their tickets to next week’s Grade 2 Progress Pace, for 3-year-olds, with victories in their respective $35,000 eliminations on Thursday (Nov. 20) at Bally’s Dover. Dandy Ideal wins wire to wire in the Matron Stakes at Bally’s Dover last week In the first elimination, Dandy Ideal and driver Jason Bartlett held their ground…

Betting on a Kentucky Longshot for the U.S. Senate? Try Dale Romans

For bettors, Dale Romans has long been the guy whose horses could light up the tote board at any time.  Shackleford ($27.20) in the Preakness Stakes (G1). Keen Ice, at 16-1, beating Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in the Travers Stakes (G1). Court Vision ($131.60) in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). Safe to say that Romans has often walked into a million-dollar race with a horse the public shrugged at, only to walk out having rewritten the payo…