Horse Racing Banter

We look for cookies in the 14 Breeders Cup races.

One week away from the Breeders Cup World Championships at Del Mar

HRB celebrates our one year in existence!  Countdown to The Breeders Cup is 21 days!

Recap of races last weekend and picks for the big weekend of racing at Keenland and Belmont.

Lot's of catching up to do, and a big weekend of racing at Santa Anita.

A look to the future.

More banter about Saratoga and Del Mar races

We have an exciting new format to make our head to head picks for the Saratoga races including the Travers.

We look at a big day of racing at Del Mar, and review the Queens Plate at Woodbine.

Recap of last weekend's racing at Saratoga and a look at races at Arlington Park and Emerald Downs featuring the Longacre's Mile.

Quick check of items off the wire, recap of last weekend's races, and picks for Saturday races at Saratoga.

One is the loneliest number to make picks for this weekends race at Del Mar and Saratoga.

We talk Baffert, the Haskell, the 3 year old division, and take a look at the King George at Royal Ascot.

Mark returns from summer sabbatical and we celebrate out 50th episode and make our picks for the Haskell stakes and other weekend races.

Review of week in racing and look at weekend races at Belmont and Emerald Downs

Review of current racing stories, a recap of  last weekend's racing, and look at 4th of July weekend racing.

Some great stories from the world of horse racing and picks for the Churchill Downs stakes races on Saturday.

Review of racing at Royal Ascot and picks for the Santa Anita closing weekend, and Emerald Downs Sunday racing.

We review the wire and look back at last weekend's racing at Belmont.

We preview the Friday and Saturday races in the Belmont Stakes Festival.  Also, we banter about the second sample and Eric does the worst race call ever.

We preview the races over the Memorial Day weekend

We look back at Eric's outstanding Preakness predictions and look forward to the June 5th Belmont.

We discuss the Medina Spirit controversy, and preview the Preakness Stakes.

We recap a great weekend of racing at Churchill Downs and preview the Preakness Stakes

We make our picks for the Kentucky Oaks, The Derby, and 11 other Stake races. What a weekend! 

We preview  The 147th Kentucky Derby -- "The fastest two minutes in sports"

Please enjoy our conversation with Hall of fame jockey Laffit Pincay, Jr.

We recap the Arkansas Derby and look forward to the Oaklawn weekend races.

Part Two of our wonderful conversation with Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron

Part one of our wonderful conversation with Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron.

We recap the races from last weekend, review the Derby Trail, and preview the Arkansas Derby.

Episode 33: We recap last weekend's races, and look forward to three big Derby Trail races.

We recap races from last weekend at Fair Grounds, and take a look at the Florida Derby and the Dubai world Cup races.

We look back and review the past weekend in racing and look forward to a big weekend of racing at Fair Ground featuring the Louisiana Derby.

We have a wonderful discussion with Hall of Fame jockey Sandy Hawley.

We recap the big racing weekend at Santa Anita and look at the upcoming derby trail race The Rebel Stakes and other races at Oaklawn and Santa Anita. Stay around to the very end for a big announcement

We recap races from Feb 27-28, profile Arlington Park. and look at the big weekend of races at Santa Anita and Derby trail.

We recap the Saudi Cup and preview the weekend in racing for the last week in February. Eric gives an impromptu call of a Stakes race.

We recap last weekend's races, profile "C" horses in our Horses A-Z segment, and take a look at the Saudi Cup races.

We recap the past two weekend's races and start looking at the Derby trail and other weekend races.

We interview Robert Geller, current track track announcer at Woodbine in Toronto, Canada. He was the original and longtime track announcer at Emerald Downs, and inductee in the Washington Thoroughbred Horseracing Hall of Fame.

We interview Mark "Miami" Paul, author of "The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, And The Mexican Cartel"Sorry for the sound quality on parts.

We review the week in racing, the Eclipse awards, and have a big announcement.

We profile trainer Brad Cox and look at this weekend Pegasus Cup races.

We profile Beholder and Bold Ruler and other "B" horses. We also we'll review the weekend races.

We profile jockey Flavien Prat, and take a look at upcoming races

We profile trainer Robert Frankel and review the racing for the New Year's weekend.

We look at the weekend of racing starting with Santa Anita on Saturday 12/26

In the first of our Jockey profile series we take a look at Russell Baze.

We banter the races for the weekend of December 18 -19th

We profile tracks from our state of Washington -- Playfair and Yakima Meadows