Weekend Winners Club

. 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 […]

. 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 […]

. Friday, May 1, 2019. Churchill Downs. . You’ve probably heard the popular horse racing phrase before, “pace makes the race.” This is very true in horse racing, but if only if it were as easy as it sounds. The truth is that pace can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to predict. . Not […]

. Thursday, May 2, Churchill Downs. As part of our all-inclusive Kentucky Derby angles series leading up to the run for the roses, today we take a look at the Derby jockeys and trainers, and their relevance. This is by far the easiest of all the analytics, but also one of the most relevant. . […]

. Wednesday, May 1, Churchill Downs. Today we take our annual look at perhaps the most critical set of historical factors for the Kentucky Derby: The final prep race and specifically the Big 5 final preps. This answers a set of criteria in the Grid concerning performance in a major prep race. . Not sure […]

. Tuesday April 30, 2019. Churchill Downs. The final Derby Dozen is here, taking into account those who actually made the field this morning during the Kentucky Derby post draw. Surprisingly there have been no withdrawn entries out of the top 20 and there is only 1 alternate who needs a scratch by 9am Friday. […]

. Tuesday, April 30. Churchill Downs had its first big media event of the week, hosting the Kentucky Derby Post Draw in which the program numbers for the field were drawn. Afterwards, Mike Battaglia assigned morning line odds to each entry. . Not sure how to get in on the action? Join TVG Free and […]