WhatIsHorseRacing

Horse racing is a state of mind. It's when you woke up the morning of the 2008 Belmont Stakes when Big Brown was attempting to become the first Triple Crown champion since the great Affirmed swept through the extraordinarily difficult series of races thirty years prior, in 1978. You woke up that morning and were so giddy with excitement, with so much emotion ready to literally explode from the very core of your being, that you simply could not, no matter what you tried - sleeping pills, Valium, reading, a strenuous workout at your local health club, a cold shower (and I mean ICE COLD!), a hot shower, separating the whites and colors before doing a wash, actually doing the wash, pulling the wet-but-washed clothing from the washer, transferring the load to the dryer, adding the fabric softener sheets, taking them out of the dryer upon completion, carefully determining whether or not all the clothes are actually dry, folding all the clothes nice and neat, walking from the laundry room to the bedroom, placing the hamper with the folded clothes on the bed, opening your drawers, removing the dried, folded clothes into the drawers, close the drawers, pick up the hamper, take it back to the laundry room, and replace the hamper. After this amazing display of nervous energy, you still cannot sit still and finally have to resort to running in place all day until the start of the 2008 Belmont, when you had the chance to see the crushing defeat of Big Brown. If you are the kind of person that gets excited at the prospect of a highly anticipated 3-2 pitch in the tie game in the late inning of a World Series, or a crucial fourth and one that will decide the game for your team, then you need to come inside this website and find out just what horse racing is! There are forums, videos, photographs, and an extensive glossary of terms that will spell out just what you've gotten yourself into!

Eclipse - Eclipse (1764 to 1789) was a famed thoroughbred racehorse, undefeated during his career. His first race was at age 5, and he won handily, causing Captain Denis O’Kelly to coin the famous phrase, “Eclipse first and the rest nowhere.” In total, Eclipse won all 18 races. Eclipse was a temperamental horse; fortunately, his jockey, John Oakley, understood him. Oakley never once spurred or whipped Eclipse. Eclipse was retired to stud in 1771; nobody would race against the wonder, and only a fool would bet against him. He sired over 300 foals before dying of colic in 1789. His skeleton resides in Newmarket’s National Horseracing Museum. The Royal Veterinary College in Great Britain believes that nearly 80% of thoroughbreds today can trace their pedigree back to Eclipse.

Quinella, Trifecta and More - A Guide to Exotic Bets - In a quinella, the bettor selects the horses that win and place (come in second), in no particular order. The harder exactor or perfecta requires the bettor to pick which horse wins and which places in exact order. A trifecta requires the bettor to pick the three horses who win, place, and show, in that order. A superfecta is a bet on the first, second, third, and fourth place horse in a race, in that order. Exotic bets let you place a “box” around the chosen numbers, allowing you to win with any combination of numbers. A trifecta box contains three numbers and has six possible combinations, costing six times more than a standard trifecta bet. At www.Sim2Win.com, a virtual horse racing simulation tool uses past performance data to create an incredible online computer horse race game. The amazing 3-D full-screen graphics and powerful performance help you practice your handicapping and betting skills!