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Algorithms, who handily defeated champion 2-year-old Hansen while making his Stakes debut in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park, has moved to the head of the class of 2012 Kentucky Derby contenders, according to the latest future odds provided by Wynn Las Vegas.

Since its inaugural running in 1996, the Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates has been the world's richest horse race. The first edition, which was won by none other than Racing Hall of Fame inductee Cigar, was worth a cool $6 million, which still today would be the biggest purse in the world.

In the lead-up to the Dec. 26 opening of the 2012 Santa Anita winter-spring meet, track officials plan to saturate the Los Angeles market with advertising and special offers in order to “reintroduce” the area's sports fans to the excitement of Santa Anita Park.

It's little wonder why South Florida has been the winter home of many champions in recent years. Aside from the mild weather, the region also boasts the Palm Meadows training center, a state-of-the-art training grounds that has drawn many of the nation's top stables since its opening in 2002.

Officials at Santa Anita Park were cautiously optimistic leading up to the opening of the track's 75th winter/spring meet on Dec. 26. That positive outlook has been affirmed, at least through the first week of the 79-day meet.

Down in Cajun country sits one of the most historical racetracks in all of North America. Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans traces its roots back to 1852, which makes it the oldest operating site of Thoroughbred racing in the United States.

Gulfstream Park will enter a new era when it opens its live racing season Saturday, Dec. 3, which is a month earlier than the track's usual opening, and is just one of just several changes found this season at Gulfstream Park.

The recently retired Uncle Mo had undeniably one of the most exciting 2-year-old campaigns in recent memory when an undefeated winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in 2010. What's equally undeniable, at least in the last 15 years or so, is Kentucky breeders' obsession with precocious brilliance.

The answer is that there is not one answer, and that different bets have their advantages depending on the circumstances of the race.

In the old days, bettors were offered only a few different bets, the win, the place, and the show, and selecting your horse was about all there was to it. In fact in 1970, and estimated 90 per cent of racetrack wagering consisted of win, place, and show bets.

Uncle Mo will most likely make his next start in the $200,000 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park, according to his owner Mike Repole. The Kelso is a Grade 2 event at 1 mile on the dirt for three-year-olds and up. The inaugural running of the Kelso was in 1980 and had been run exclusively on the turf until 2010, when it was changed to a dirt race.