Weekend Winners Club

. 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 […]

. Monday, May 13. Churchill Downs. The annual running of the Derby is complete even if the bickering is not over yet. We posted an article covering all of that last week and we all know who really won, so this is about the final results as a whole and what predictions we had beforehand. […]

. Saturday, April 27. OK it’s a weekend before the Kentucky Derby but that doesn’t mean nothing is going on. Golden Gate has an exciting card with the grade 3 San Fran Mile and several other stakes races including the California Derby and Oaks. . . Now we’re not going to pretend that any of […]

. Saturday, April 20. Laurel Park in Maryland will have an unusual big stakes day this weekend, picking up the slack for the major tracks which are still recovering from their huge weekends and Kentucky Derby preps. Yes some other tracks are having stakes races, but Laurel is hosting 7 of them. . The race […]

. Feb.22 2019: It’s time once again for a renewal of the Kentucky Double Derby Dozen, taking into account last weekends stakes actions in the Risen Star G2, Southwest G3, El Camino Real Derby, and Miracle Wood, the last of which is not a points race but there is some significance. Here our list included […]

. 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 […]

. 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. […]