Weekend Winners Club

. September 24, 2010.  It’s Pre-Preakness week, but we have a list of probables for the Preakness, so it’s a good time for an early precap of the possible contenders and their past performances.  It’s time to start narrowing down the field of 15 before we actually know the final field. . There are only […]

. Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Churchill Downs officially announced the postponement of the Kentucky Derby until September 5, at which point the coronavirus causing global panic will have been magically cured. Governor Larry Hogan followed suit and decreed the Preakness postponed to September as well. . . The only prior postponement of the famous Triple […]

. Friday, May 17, Pimlico. It’s that time of year: early summer. Pimlico is in full swing about to host the Preakness Stakes tomorrow, but before we even get to Saturday racing, they have a great card going on today with 4 graded stakes and 3 listed stakes in what is traditionally known as Black […]

. Thursday, May 16, 2018. Pimlico Park. Pimlico’s big weekend of the year, which we always fear may be their last, is getting underway on Friday with the Black Eyed Susan, Miss Preakness, Distaff, and my favorite, the Pimlico Special, inaugurated at the 1938 match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral. . But everyone wants […]

. Friday, May 16 2018. Pimlico kicks off its biggest racing weekend of the year with the Preakness Eve card featuring the Black Eyed Susan G2, Dupont Distaff G3, Miss Preakness G3, and Pimlico Special G3, the historic race founded by the legendary match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral. . . The 14 race […]

. Tuesday, May 23 Pimlico, MD . Get the Belmont Stakes 2017 Grid Now . Let’s do a recap of the Preakness by the numbers, and review the updated charts that we provided last week showing how Kentucky Derby horses did in the Preakness and vice versa. In the first chart, we showed the modern […]

Monday, May 22 Pimlico, Maryland . Get the Belmont Stakes 2017 Grid Now . There aren’t that many armchair quarterbacks this time around, as the racing “experts” are still searching for answers to the Preakness, because they still don’t get it. . If they had used the Grid, they would understand much of it already. […]

. Friday, May 19 Pimlico, Maryland . We did this a few days before the Kentucky Derby: a brief but awesome analysis of the Derby Contenders sires and sirelines, including how those sires finished in Triple Crown races. . In that analysis, we listed the contenders by the most relevant sires from top to bottom. […]

. Wednesday, May 17 Pimlico, MD . In what may be the final Preakness Stakes ever run at Pimlico, the final field has been determined with post positions and morning lines. . Not surprisingly, Kentucky Derby favorite and champion Always Dreaming is the favorite, with 4th place finisher Classic Empire the 2nd choice. . . […]

. Monday, May 15 Pimlico, MD . Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming is not surprisingly the almost-even-money favorite for the Preakness Stakes this weekend, but the issue won’t be settled until then. . Could this be another Lookin at Lucky type of year? Because it’s clear that out of 20 quality 3yo’s that competed on […]