Episode 172 of Chicago Race of the Day delves into Friday’s fourth race at Hawthorne: a $5,000 maiden claimer that drew an overflow field. It’s not a condition run upstate often…and it’s a level that’s bound for some chaos. It’s a great reason to jump in, get to know the field, and see who might be able to get in the frame at a huge price!

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Love chasing carryovers? You absolutely want to play Hawthorne on Sunday.

Omar Attack, a 116/1 longshot in the Hawthorne 4th on Saturday, keyed a carryover of both the Pick 5 ($6,502) and the early Pick 4 ($8,206) into Sunday at Hawthorne. In addition to carryovers in both pools, there’s a $50,000 guarantee for each. To help you get your piece, Episode 171 of Chicago Race of the Day is zooming in on a race in both sequences: Sunday’s 2nd, a conditioned claiming turf route that drew a field of eleven!

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If you’re still playing the races after the Breeders’ Cup Classic — and I hope you are! — Episode 170 of Chicago Race of the Day is here with a look at the 7th race at Hawthorne on Saturday. I look at a horse with one of the more interesting racing histories among recent arrivals in Chicago…and also, for the first time in a while, play a rousing round of “who’s the live Becker horse”. (It’s a time-honoured tradition, you know.)

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Episode 169 of Chicago Race of the Day is here! Breeders’ Cup may be going on, but so is Hawthorne, and Friday’s 8th race is a very good starter-optional claiming dirt route. Most of the field can win…but who will get the best of it from a trip perspective, and who will likely offer the most value on the tote board? Listen on and find out!

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November is here, and we need to enjoy the turf season while it lasts. Sunday is a great day for it: the day’s fourth is a maiden special weight turf mile for two-year-olds that drew a full field of twelve horses! With race form, trainer patterns, and interesting pedigree nuggets…there’s a lot to think through, and you can dive into all of it in less than fifteen minutes!

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For Episode 167 of Chicago Race of the Day, it’s all treats and no tricks: Saturday’s 8th at Hawthorne is a challenging Illinois-bred allowance for fillies and mares, going six and a half furlongs on the dirt. It’s a specialist distance, and it’s a field where there isn’t really anyone who has stepped up yet to prove that this is their specialty. So, between pace and pedigree, we try to figure out who can get the trip and who has the stamina to get that last half-furlong…including one horse who can do it at a price.

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Hawthorne is back in action on Friday, and Episode 166 of Chicago Race of the Day is here to talk about the 8th: Chicago’s first race of the year for two-year-old winners! With familiar Hawthorne faces, Arlington horses trying dirt for the first time, and some who are completely new to the circuit? Let’s get to know them, and figure out who is going to get the right trip!

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Episode 165 of Chicago Race of the Day returns to the two-year-old ranks for Sunday’s 5th race at Hawthorne. Of course, it’s mostly handicapping: pedigree, trainer patterns, previous race form, everything you need to make sense of a two-year-old race. But, there’s also a few little moments of story time, because some races just demand story time.

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For Episode 164 of Chicago Race of the Day, let’s get back to the two-year-old ranks! Saturday’s Hawthorne 5th is a $25,000 maiden claimer for two-year-olds. Not only are two-year-old races fun, but it looks like a great place to beat some chalk. Let’s get to it!

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Friday’s 8th at Hawthorne is a very nice dirt sprint allowance, probably one of the best dirt sprint fields we’ll see all meet. The race has it all: nice horses, the chance for an off track, and a specialist distance. So, let’s put it all together and see what we get!

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Episode 162 stays in the two-year-old ranks; Sunday’s third race at Hawthorne is a maiden special weight sprint for two-year-old maiden fillies. With an interesting mix of experienced runners and first-time starters, not to mention the chance of rain, it’s a fun race to puzzle through.

Who has the most upside? Let’s find out!

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For Epsiode 161 of Chicago Race of the Day, we get back to the two-year-old ranks! The day’s opener is a $25,000 maiden claiming dirt sprint for two-year-old fillies, a field in which most of the runners are either first-time starters or first-time dirt. Six of the seven runners are Illinois-breds, many of the runners are out of mares who ran in Chicago pretty recently…and it’s a good chance both to talk about local pedigrees, and about how the track may play differently this week than it did the first two weeks of the meet.

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Episode 160 of Chicago Race of the Day shines a light on Friday’s Hawthorne 3rd, an open $8,500 claiming dirt sprint. It’s another chance to check in on some of the toughest horses in the state, as well as to learn a little about one of the newer faces in the Illinois training ranks.

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The fourth race on Sunday’s Hawthorne card features a full field of twelve juvenile fillies (plus two also-eligibles) set to go a mile on the lawn. From familiar faces from Arlington, to shippers, to first-time starters, this race has it all. In Episode 159 of Chicago Race of the Day, let’s figure out who should love the turf mile, who has shown talent on the track, and who looks ready to break her maiden!

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For Episode 158 of Chicago Race of the Day, we stay on the lawn, but turn back to a sprint and take a look at a full field of twelve open claimers in Saturday’s Hawthorne 4th. It looks like a hot pace up front, and there’s an interesting price horse who looks to be finding his stride as a turf sprinter.

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