Weekend Winners Club

. Sunday, May 16, 2021. Sunny Santa Anita has a mandatory Jackpot 6 payout today with a $550k carryover coming in. That means a couple of things. First, you don’t need a unique ticket to win; anyone with the all the winners on their 20ct (or more) ticket ticket will win part of the final […]

. Saturday, November 14.  Gulfstream Park West, otherwise known as Calder Race Course, holds the Sunshine Millions Preview today, a misleading name all around, since neither today nor the actual Sunshine Millions day in January, will offer $1 million or more in purses. . Nonetheless, they will run 5 stakes races worth about $300k total […]

. Saturday, October 10, 2020. It’s another big Breeders’ Cup preview day, this time at Belmont Park, which is hosting 4 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Challenge (BCC) Races.  That means the winner of each of these gets an automatic entry to a specific Breeders’ Cup race. . Last week the bulk of the action was […]

. Saturday, August 8.  Saratoga is having its historically biggest race day of the year today, with no fans in the stands, which is quite a strange spectacle.  The Travers G1 “Midsummer Derby” is the featured race, preceded by the Test G1 and several other graded stakes. . This also the last 100 point prep […]

. Thursday, June 18, 2020.  Belmont Park has a great weekday card today with 10 races including a nice little stakes race for fillies and mares.  Two days before the Big Day with Grade 1 races the Belmont Stakes, Acorn, Jaipur, and Woody Stephens, it’s a good time to take a preview at how the […]

. June 6, 2020.  Santa Anita is finally holding their Derby and Oaks two months late this year, as well as the Hollywood Gold Cup and a few other stakes races included turf runs for 3yo’s.  Yes, the short fields are back in business at SA, with the average stakes field size 6 and the […]

. Friday, May 29.  While eastern tracks are busy taking races off turf with huge fields of 20 that they have to cut down to 12 every day, it remains sunny at Santa Anita where they have much shorter but still competitive fields.  There’s a Pick 6 Jackpot carryover of $487k today. . . A […]

. Saturday, Feb.2, 2019. It’s a huge day for 3yo’s at Gulfstream Park today, with the important Holy Bull G2 prep, which will hand out 10-4-2-1 Kentucky Derby points to the top 4 finishers. . . A field consists of 8 non-points earners taking on Maximus Mischief, who already has 10 points from his Remsen […]

. Saturday, January 26, Gulfstream Park. It’s the big day of the month in Miami, with Gulfstream hosting the Pegasus World Cup G1, an invitational with a $9 million purse and a tiny $4M going to the winner at 9f on turf. . . Prior to that there are 5 other graded stakes races, 1 […]

. Saturday, Jan.12. Not quite as sunny as usual Santa Anita is running graded stakes races as usual on Saturday, including the La Canada G3 for fillies and mares, and the Las Cienegas G3 for FM on the downhill turf course at 6.5f. . . All other turf races have been taken off the turf, […]