Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, June 30. Gulfstream Park has another big race day in its legendary year-round racing meet. The Summit of Speed is highlighted by the Smile Sprint G3 for all horses and Princess Rooney G2 for fillies and mares. Listed stakes Carry Back and Azalea will be for 3yos and 3yof’s respectively. . All eyes […]

. Saturday, June 23. Thistledown has it’s big day of the year with the Ohio Derby, featuring mostly some great horses that either didn’t make the Kentucky Derby or didn’t do much in it. . Flameaway, Lone Sailor, Dream Baby Dream, Diamond King and Core Beliefs highlight an initial field of 12 in what looks […]

. Saturday, June 16, Churchill Downs. Horse racing has not suddenly come to a halt after Justify won the Triple Crown! Churchill Downs has it’s 2nd biggest race day of the year on Saturday, hosting 5 graded stakes races. . Kicking off the stakes racing will be the Matt Winn G3, featuring Baffert’s Sir Barton […]

. June 12. This week’s Grid of the Week will be Churchill Downs on Saturday. The following big races are on tap. Check back on Thursday night for the Grid posting. . Fleur de Lis H (GII) BC CD Jun 16 $200k g 3&up f/m 9f Dirt Closed on Jun 2. Matt Winn S (GIII) […]

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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. […]