Betting Picks

One of the final stakes races for the 2018 Woodbine Race Track thoroughbred season, the $175,000 (G2) Kennedy Road Stakes has drawn a mixed field of nine runners aged three and older, including one locally based heavy favorite and one invader making his Canadian racing debut. They'll be racing six furlongs on the Woodbine all-weather course, and the race is available for betting at Bovada's online racebook.

A full field of fourteen two-year-old colts are ready to go to the gate at Churchill Downs on Saturday for the running of the (G2) $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. In addition to the purse money, the horses and their connections will be trying to secure points to qualify for a return trip to Churchill on the first Saturday of May for the 2019 Kentucky Derby.

The turf is the main focus of racing at Del Mar this coming Friday, as the southern California track hosts the $200,000 (G2) Hollywood Turf Cup. A very tough field of eight older horses are expected to go to the Del Mar gate to battle for the win over 1 1/2 miles in what should be an excellent betting opportunity in Bovada's online racebook.

The final Grade 1 stakes race in the US for older horses running on dirt this year goes this holiday Friday at Churchill Downs with the running of the $500,000 Clark Handicap. Eight have been entered to run 1 1/8 miles on the Churchill dirt, including a couple names that will sound familiar from both the 2017 and 2018 Triple Crown trail.

Thanksgiving weekend is usually reserved for football, but don't overlook the CFL Grey Cup. The league's two top teams — Ottawa and Calgary — will meet in the 106th championship game. It will actually be the third time both teams have faced this season, and earlier season results give us a good idea of who to bet on come Sunday!

It's starting to snow in Toronto and that's always an indication the throughbred racing season at Woodbine is winding down. But there is still some betting to be made on stakes races before the season ends, including Sunday's $225,0000 Coronation Futurity. It's the top race of the year at Woodbine for two-year-olds and a likely preview of some of the horses we'll see in next year's Queen's Plate.

Named for the late actor and frequent Del Mar Race Track attendee, the (G3) Bob Hope Stakes is open to two-year-old horses running seven furlongs on the Del Mar dirt course. The race offers a total purse of $100,000 and has drawn closely matched field of seven colts and one gelding that are expected to go to the gate on Saturday afternoon.

The fight game has been seeking a method to inject life into the heavyweight division seemingly ever since Mike Tyson's glory days came to a crashing halt. Could this bout be it? Neither champion Deontay Wilder or challenger Tyson Fury have ever tasted defeat. But that should change Dec. 1 at the Staples Center.

You didn't actually think it was too early to prepare for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, did you? Because it's not. Sportsbooks are already offering odds on which countries will win the most gold medals, so you're able to make onset investments and get the most lucrative lines. Using odds from Bovada, we're going to outline all of these available bets while seeing if we can't spot some market inefficiencies for you to exploit.