This week's Key Races & Bets covers a number of great stakes races at Gulfstream Park - the Sugar Swirl, the My Charmer and the Harlan's Holiday then moves cross country for the Soviet Problem Stakes in Southern California. 

This week's edition of KEY Races & Bets showcases some fantastic races as part of the Claiming Crown on opening weekend of the Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park - The Claiming Crown Jewel and Claiming Crown Emerald. There's also a big race for two year old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs - the Sandpiper Stakes.

Huge fields and wide open races await us during the Del Mar Turf Festival and three of those races are part of this week's podcast - The Jimmy Durante Stakes, The Seabiscuit Handicap and the Hollywood Derby.

We start this week's Key Races & Bets with the Red Smith Stakes, a mile and three-eighths test on the grass at Aqueduct then we move north of the border for pair of excellent betting races at Woodbine - the Ontario Derby & the Bessarabian Stakes.

Some excellent two year old races - the Notebook Stakes at Aqueduct and the Desi Arnaz Stakes at Del Mar, are part of this week's trio of races. The other is the Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct, with a very live 12/1 long shot for profit as the key. Good Luck.

On this week's podcast, I cover the Fort Springs Stakes on the Breeders' Cup undercard, the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and the Breeders' Cup Turf. Good Luck.

This week's Key Races & Bets Podcast, and the blog of the same name at Amwager.com, features a quartet of superb races at Belmont Park including the Zagora Stakes, the Awad Stakes and the Bold Ruler Handicap.

Four great races at Belmont Park in New York and at Laurel in Maryland are featured on this weeks Key Races & Bets podcast.

With great racing all weekend, this week's Key Races & Bets covers a couple of races at Belmont on Saturday including the Floral Park Stakes. Sunday's coverage includes the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine and the Twilight Derby at Santa Anita.