TurfnSport.com offers more Kentucky Derby coverage

TORONTO, Ontario -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- It's been 10 years since Real Quiet came out of nowhere to nearly claim horse racing's Triple Crown and almost 10 years exactly since a horse racing website came out of nowhere to become a daily must-read for horseplayers.

And in celebrating 10 years in business, owner Mike Dempsey figured there was no point in remaining real quiet about the new Triple Crown wagering information - and huge handicapping contests which will send players to Las Vegas for one tournament and to the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita for another - made recently to the site.

"We have added a tremendous amount of Kentucky derby handicapping material in the past few weeks, everything from how the derby favorite has fared over the last 10 years to historical post position win percentages for all three jewels," explained Dempsey, a respected handicapper who has been in the business for three decades. "We have also absorbed one of the busiest and most-knowledgeable horse racing forums on the Internet to add even more Triple Crown opinion, picks and analysis to the site."

Among the reams of new Triple Crown wagering information is top jockey and trainer records for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, up-to-the-minute news from the backstretch at Churchill Downs and Triple Crown wagering odds and pari-mutuel payouts from several online racebook sources.

"If you are going to bet on the Derby -- and many people will do just that for the first time on the First Saturday in May -- then visiting Turfnsport.com is a must," said Dempsey, who provides his own free picks with detailed analysis on the Kentucky Derby.

Handicapping colleague Brian Mulligan, another respected mainstay in the horse racing industry, also provides his insights and picks. The pair of horse handicapping experts have pledged to provide free race selections on all Triple Crown races for the first time in 2008.

In addition to the useful forum chatter, the horse racing forum also provides a free Kentucky Derby contest where participants can share in the $1,000 in prize money made available May 3. The Derby competition requires fans to pick winners on all the races at Churchill Downs on Derby Day and rewards winners with racebook credit from one of the TurfnSport.com sponsors.

"The contests have served as a great way to generate new chatter in the forum and to increase the volume of opinion and picks going on in there," said Dempsey. "Every week during the year, there is a new contest, new qualifiers that earn contestants a chance to play for those big year-end prizes. It's been great marrying up the clients and visitors who have followed TurfnSport.com for a decade with the knowledgeable group of forum posters who have made TrackChampion.com such a worthwhile place."

So horse racing veterans and even the first-time visitors curious about all the buzz around Derby Day can get their fix at TurfnSport.com. And all can learn how the post position draw will affect likely favorite Big Brown and second betting choice Colonel John.