Bruce Battaglia - Odds Maker began handicapping professionally in 1970, making the morning line odds for River Downs located near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was soon hired by many of the Kentucky tracks, such as Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Ellis Park and Turfway Park to create the morning line odds for their track programs. He also produced the morning line odds for Arlington Park from 1975 until 1985.

Bruce was the featured horse racing handicapper for the Louisville Courier Journal and the Cincinnati Post. Today, Bruce writes for Las Vegas Gaming Today and has made the winter book Kentucky Derby odds for Las Vegas casinos and Caliente in Mexico.

He has been a professional odds maker and handicapper all of his adult life and now brings over 39 years of racing knowledge and experience to the Trackside Broadcasting Network.