Weekend Winners Club

. Friday, May 1, 2019. Churchill Downs. . You’ve probably heard the popular horse racing phrase before, “pace makes the race.” This is very true in horse racing, but if only if it were as easy as it sounds. The truth is that pace can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to predict. . Not […]

. Thursday, May 2, Churchill Downs. As part of our all-inclusive Kentucky Derby angles series leading up to the run for the roses, today we take a look at the Derby jockeys and trainers, and their relevance. This is by far the easiest of all the analytics, but also one of the most relevant. . […]

. Wednesday, May 1, Churchill Downs. Today we take our annual look at perhaps the most critical set of historical factors for the Kentucky Derby: The final prep race and specifically the Big 5 final preps. This answers a set of criteria in the Grid concerning performance in a major prep race. . Not sure […]

. Monday, March 18, 2019. Oaklawn Park had a big race day on Saturday, picking up some slack for the cancellation of the San Felipe by adding a 2nd Rebel Stakes. They officially stamped at least 2 Kentucky Derby tickets given that each Rebel G2 win was worth 37.5 points, and 2 others look to […]

Monday, June 11, 2018, Belmont Park. The usual Monday morning jockeying has been going on since Saturday night, with the backers of the favorite happily saying they told you so. These were the same people who wanted to tell you so 12 times between 1978 and 2015, but couldn’t. . . Then there are those […]

. Saturday, June 9, Belmont Park. Today we look at a brief history of Triple Crown Champions, adequate to the occasion, since yet another horse, the 7th this century, is trying to win the coveted crown by winning the Belmont Stakes today in what is the longest race that any of them has faced yet. […]

. May 20, 2018. The Preakness aftermath can be categorized as a tale of two camps. In one camp, you have those that were elated at the Justify win and perhaps cashed in their winning tickets of $2.80. In camp 2, there are those immediate detractors shouting that he only won by ½ length as […]

. Monday, May 6, 2018. Last week, we pummeled you with articles, all of which pointed to a winning trifecta and possibly even a superfecta if you had the Grid. You would have been hard pressed to get better information somewhere else, but then again, it wasn’t too difficult to get the top 3. . […]

. Saturday May 5, Churchill Downs. It turns out there aren’t a great many people that want to see 80 different factors, much less analysis of such factors, for the Kentucky Derby. So we made a Derby for Complete Dummies chart! . If your head is already exploding from hearing terms like Preps, Speed Figures, […]

. Friday, May 4, 2018. Pulling another page from our Kentucky Derby History database, we take a look at jockeys and trainers and their relevance in the Run for the Roses. Shortly we will combine that with the info in the Sirelines article and that in the Major Prep results article and put it all […]