Weekend Winners Club

. June 2019 Thoroughbred Stakes Schedule . This month’s highlights: June 1: Penn Governors Cup 8 stakes races June 8: Belmont: Stakes Met Mile, Acorn, Manhattan, etc. 3 BCC races June 8: Woodbine: Oaks and Plate Trial June 15: Churchill: Stephen Foster, Fleur de Lis, Matt Winn, Regret, etc. 2 BCC races June 16: Monmouth: […]

. Monday, May 27 2019. It’s Memorial Day weekend and to commemorate the occasion, Santa Anita will be hosting a card with 3 Grade 1 races including the Gamely, Shoemaker Mile, and Hollywood Gold Cup, which used to be at Hollywood Park before it closed. . . The Gamely is a 9 furlong turf race […]

. Saturday, May 25. Louisiana Legends Night is the call to order tonight at Evangeline Downs. A great place to have night racing, which more tracks in the south should follow suit, and a great night of racing. . . It’s only a 10 race card, but count them: 8 stakes races in various categories, […]

. 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 […]

. 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 May 11. Belmont Park has its first big race day of the meet with the headline race being the Man O War G1 which features some of the nation’s best turf routers. 3 other G3 races fill the card along with the now listed Runhappy with some great older horses. . . Triple […]

. Wednesday, May 8, 2019. It’s been less than 4 days since America’s biggest race, in which there was an unprecedented disqualification of the actual winner following an objection and a lengthy stewards review, followed by an appeal which was quickly denied, followed by arguments across the world, followed by tempers which are still flaring. […]

. May 2019 NTRA Graded Stakes schedule and highlights: . May 3: Kentucky Oaks G1 and big undercard May 4: Kentucky Derby G1 and massive undercard May 11: Man O War G1 and Peter Pan G3 at Belmont May 17: Black Eyed Susan G2 and Pimlico Special G3 May 18: Preakness G1 and big undercard […]

. Saturday, May 4. Churchill Downs. . So it’s getting late on Saturday afternoon, and despite all the excess partying going on wherever you are, you’re been playing it cool about Derby talk, telling people you want to wait to see what the odds are. But the bottom line is, you don’t know who the […]