Weekend Winners Club

. Thursday, November 2, 2023.  Kentucky Derby pools start earlier every year, having started on Tuesday October 31 this year.  Pool 1 will end today at 6PM ET, about 25 hours before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 at Santa Anita runs on Friday. . Get the Breeders’ Cup Grid for both full days here! . […]

. November 2023.  Thoroughbred horse racing stakes schedule for the NTRA and JRA begins has 166 stakes races on the agenda. . Racing will blast off Friday November 3-4 with the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita along with dozens of other stakes races around the continent. . Get the Breeders’ Cup Grid for both days, […]

. Saturday, June 3, 2023.  Churchill Downs continues to host some great racing, 4 weeks after the fabled Kentucky Derby weekend.  On Saturday, 6 stakes races including 4 G3’s, worth $225k in purse money each, will join the other 5 races for a race day worth $1.73 million in payouts.  Churchill has labeled this Stephen […]

  . Monday, April 10.  9 days ago we released a last minute Dirty Dozen for the purpose of Kentucky Derby Pool 6 which closed on April 1 at 6pm, before the Florida and Arkansas Derbies were run, and well before the Big 3 prep races of April 8: The Wood, Bluegrass, and Santa Anita […]

. Saturday, September 16, 2022. Churchill and Woodbine loom large this weekend with big 2yo stakes races and MSW’s.  As we wind up towards the Breeders’ Cup in early November, the younguns are warming up for the BC Juvenile and possible Triple Crown run.  . Churchill Downs’ pair of G3’s include the Iroquois for 2yo’s […]

. Monday, July 4, 2022.  Yes the annual grilling day of the USA is finally here, and so is Independence Day racing at Churchill Downs, with some awesome 2yo stakes racing and a few MSW’s thrown in for good measure.  There is over $1 million in purse money up for grabs today at CD! . […]

. Saturday, July 2, 2022. Churchill Downs is always a great venue for summer racing, and today is no exception.  CD kicks off the weekend with a slew of stakes races, some great 3yo races, a few MSW’s, and 12 races total, featuring the Stephen Foster G2. . The 12 race card begins at 12:45PM, […]

. May 7 2022.  The annual Kentucky Derby for Dummies is back again this year, due to an uproar from fans of the simpleton guide because they haven’t seen it yet.  All we’ve issued so far is these boring statistical Derby Lessons, which you’re too busy to read through. . Full Kentucky Derby Grid with […]

. May 6 2021.  If there’s one lesson you should really heed, it’s this one.  In this edition of the Kentucky Derby Lessons, we shall cover the major prep races leading up to the Derby, and their inherent relativism.  We will focus on the Bob Baffert Era which began in 1997 when he won the […]

. Friday May 6 2022.  Churchill Downs kicks off Derby weekend with 7 graded stakes today, highlighted by the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks wherein 14 brilliant 3yo fillies will run for a measly $1.25 million purse.  Most of the 13 race card is for fillies and mares on Ladies Day. . Racing began at 10:30am, […]