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TOBY TURRELL
Tracks/Circuits: California, Louisiana and Kentucky.
Toby Turrell is a horse racing aficionado with regal bloodlines. A member of the noted Baedeker family of Southern California racing, his grandfather, Bud, pioneered the racing information business in the area in 1938. Two of his uncles are TVG analyst Bob Baedeker and former Hollywood Park president Rick Baedeker, and his father, Terry Turrell, has been a syndicated newspaper handicapper in Southern California for more than 30 years.
A successful stakes-winning owner and breeder, Toby Turrell has been clocking horses for more than 20 years. His Winner's Card products, sold on-track in Southern California for decades are known to locals as "The Yellow Sheet." A highly successful tournament player, Turrell is a multiple DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship qualifier who offers the rare combination of clocking and handicapping to the Winner's Card and Morning Works.
DONALD HARRIS
Tracks/Circuits: Southern California, Northern California.
Donald Harris has worked as an association clocker at Fairplex, Hollywood Park and Del Mar prior to joining the independent ranks. A published handicapper and clocker in various racing publications over the years, he was featured in an HRTV "Inside Information" segment in 2008, going inside the world of morning drills.
An experienced sales attendee, Donald also clocks breezes in Florida (OBS) and Maryland (Timonium). He has a keen eye for race-ready horses and brings that expertise to The Winner's Card and Morning Works product lines.
JOE KRISTUFEK
Tracks/Circuits: Oaklawn, Arlington/Hawthorne.
Joe Kristufek is a self-proclaimed "horse racing ambassador," currently serving as the racing writer for the Daily Herald newspaper in Chicago, where he has been the area's leading published handicapper for seven of the last eight seasons.
Kristufek is Arlington Park's morning-line maker and program comments writer, and is involved in several horse-racing related educational projects within the Chicago horse racing industry. An astute trip handicapper, Kristufek specializes in reading between the past performance lines.
A regular contributor to The Horseplayer Magazine and NTRA.COM, visit Joe at one of his many on-track and OTB fan education tour stops in the greater Chicago area (see list here).
LARRY ZAP
Tracks/Circuits: Gulfstream Park
Larry Zap is "The Eye" and co-host of Felix Taverna's Race and Sports Radio program on XX Sports Radio 1090 AM San Diego. An equine talent scout who scours the 2-year-olds in training sales on both coasts, Zap has purchased horses for top SoCal conditioners Doug O'Neill, Peter Eurton and others.
After seeing Secretariat win the Belmont like a tremendous machine, Larry has been on a serious mission to figure out what makes Thoroughbreds great. His unique analysis of measuring quality in racehorses that he uses to buy young Thoroughbreds at the sales for his clients also is applicable in selecting winners. Unlike most speed-figure guys, Larry applies a visual index from watching an extensive amount of tapes that translates to finding live value horses that don't measure up on raw figs.
He resides in Arcadia, Cal. and travels the country looking to buy the next great equine athlete. Zap brings
a unique, two-pronged perspective to the Winner's Card, Gulfstream Park Edition with a long history of watching many of the South Florida runners and a scout's-eye perspective that makes his weekly Horses to Watch list every bit as important as his daily, race-by-race analysis within the product.
Listen live to Larry Zap and Felix Taverna every Saturday on Race and Sports radio between noon and 1 p.m. eastern, here.
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