Profiles, Picks & Paddock Cards

Every Handicapper Leaves a Legacy.

Build your own handicapping profile, compare it with Trackside’s general model, and share the card with the people you watch races with.

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Bob and Frank with a Daily Racing Form vehicle

The kinds of horses they would still be talking about.

Win Pick Secretariat

Big Red with that breathtaking, open-it-up move.

Win Pick Seattle Slew

Unbeaten brilliance with speed that breaks a race apart.

Win Pick Silver Charm

All grit, all heart, the kind that keeps finding more in the lane.

Win Pick Curlin

Powerful stride, relentless finish, and real route-horse class.

Win Pick Zenyatta

The huge late run, the rhythm, the crowd waiting for her turn.

Win Pick Cigar

Pure authority, all class, the kind that dares you to beat him.

Win Pick John Henry

Hard-knocking heart and the kind of fight old-school players love.

Win Pick American Pharoah

Effortless stride, quiet power, and a champion’s composure.

What It Does

Create your own handicapping profile, then test it against the general model.

Start with the racing instincts, favorite horses, tracks, trainers, and angles that shape how you see a card. Trackside turns that point of view into a saved profile you can bring back race after race.

The general model gives every card a serious baseline. Your profile shows where your view agrees or splits, and Paddock Card lets your group compare picks, boosts, fades, and comments in one shared race-day card.

Baseline

General Model

A clean read of one Saratoga 6/6/2026 race before any family preferences, favorite connections, or personal angles are applied.

Same race. Different eyes. The pick changes when the person behind the profile changes.

Your turn

Set up a sample profile to see Saratoga 6/6/2026 for yourself.

Use the builder to create or reopen a sample profile first. The Saratoga 6/6/2026 My Card view opens from inside that saved sample account.

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The Story Behind It

For more than 40 years, Frank and Bob kept race day alive.

Francis Boyle grew up beside his father Frank and Frank’s best friend Bob, listening as they marked up programs, argued over horses, and brought the same stories back every race day.

Bob and Frank were lifelong friends. They bought houses on the same street, raised their families together, and made the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont part of family life.

Frank passed away in 2018. Earlier this year, Bob passed away too. After Bob died, Mike and Francis kept coming back to the same question: how do you keep race day with them when the person who made it special is gone?

Francis built a simple prototype that modeled the way Frank and Bob approached handicapped a card using the horses, trainers, tracks, and betting angles they trusted most.

“Dad had another winner.”

For a moment, it felt like he was sitting with us watching the races again. That moment is why Trackside Legacy exists.

What We Preserve

What if you could preserve the way someone experienced horse racing?

Their Angles

Pace ideas, class drops, trainer moves, and the little race-shape patterns they always trusted.

Their Horses

The horses, barns, sires, and jockeys that always caught their eye or meant something to them.

Their Stories

The races they retold forever, the bad beats, the photo finishes, and the hits they never let anyone forget.

Their Traditions

The same spot at the rail, the marked-up program, the annual trips, and the way they watched a race.

How It Works

How would they have handicapped Saratoga today?

Trackside Legacy isn’t a black box. It’s a framework built from a real person’s preferences, patterns, and passions, then run against today’s races.

Step One

Build the Profile

Tell us about the person you want to remember: the tracks they loved, the angles they trusted, the horses they never forgot, and the habits that defined them.

Step Two

Run the Card

Trackside Legacy applies that style to today’s entries and surfaces the horses and situations their profiles would surface.

Step Three

Remember Together

Watch the races alongside their picks, add memories, and keep their voice part of race day. Paddock Card brings that voice into the conversation with the people watching beside you now.

Old Friends memorial brick honoring Coach Bob Barikian. — Bob’s memorial brick at Old Friends.

Plaque in loving memory of Frank J. Boyle Jr. at Old Friends. — Frank’s memorial plaque at Old Friends.

Our Mission

Remembering the people. Supporting the horses.

The handicapping is the vehicle. The larger goal is preserving the people, stories, traditions, and personalities that make horse racing special in the first place.

Frank and Bob both loved visiting Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky, where retired racehorses are cared for and celebrated long after their racing careers are over.

Today, both of them are honored there on the memorial wall. As Trackside Legacy grows, Francis hopes to dedicate a portion of proceeds to Old Friends and similar organizations.

Frank and Bob visiting Silver Charm at Old Friends. — Frank and Bob at Old Friends Farm, Georgetown, Kentucky.

For the next generation of fans

Some fans don’t have a father, grandfather, friend, or mentor sitting beside them to explain pace, class, trainer intent, and trip notes. Trackside Legacy wants to teach those lessons while respecting the traditions that have always been part of the game.

Natalie and her son Adam at Churchill Downs.

Patti and Francis's son Louis with a Preakness program. — Patti and Francis’s son Louis at the Preakness.

Join Trackside Legacy.

Create your account to build or reopen your profile, access Trackside’s general model, and get into Paddock Card when your racing group is ready to compare the day together.

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