Dave Gutfreund

David Gutfreund has been working and living in England for the last year working on a TV network called Racing World, which brings American horse racing into the living rooms of U.K. punters showing the best of sport in the U.S. including such tracks as Churchill Downs, Arlington Park, Fair Grounds, Gulfstream, and Santa Anita. For more than a decade, Gutfreund has been a fixture on the handicapping contest scene having qualified for the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship in five of the last six years. Known in racing circles as 'The Maven', David is in his 9th year of writing a column for the Youbet.com Update. In 2006, Gutfreund also appeared on ESPN2 for their coverage of the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship, did paddock previews during Derby Week at Churchill Downs and went on Channel 4 in Britain to preview Breeders' Cup Day.