For the eighth consecutive year, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse racing to give their top three picks on major races each weekend leading up to the 2024 Triple Crown and then on to the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers will compete against each other in what we like to call the “Big-Race Showdown.”
Players’ picks will be published here and a running bankroll will be kept to track their success throughout the year. Bankrolls will be tabulated based on $2 exacta and trifecta box bets on each player’s top three picks. We will also keep track of which player correctly picks the most winners.
Your players for the 2024 Big Race Showdown season are Edison Hatter (Host of the In The Money Media Podcast and track announcer), Thomas Kearney (Race track announcer, Shenandoah Downs), Ashley Mailloux (freelance racing analyst), Jessica Paquette (Race commentator for Parx Racing, Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation), Johannes Piassek (Communications Manager, Maryland Horse Breeders Association), Roberto Rodriguez (El Potro Roberto, DRF en Espanol), Michael Somich (VSiN presenter; The Magic Mike Show – The Racing Dudes), Darwin Vizcaya (Handicapper and host), Rowan Ward (Chartcaller at Hawthorne Race Track and freelance writer) and Alexa Zepp (Handicapper, DRF).
This week’s Big Race Showdown is the $600,000 Alabama Stakes presented by Keeneland Sales, which drew a field of eight 3-year-old fillies running 1 ¼ miles at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday. The NYRA-produced “Saratoga Live” broadcasts the races from Spa on FOX Sports channels from Wednesday, August 14, to Sunday, August 18, with a three-hour block on Saturday that airs nationwide on FOX This includes the Alabama Stakes.
