Weekend Winners Club

. May 7, 2022 Churchill Downs.  This is the Day of the Kentucky Derby, in case you’ve ben living in a cave or something.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as long as you get a phone and data signal somewhere near the cave.  Make sure you also check out Derby for Dummies and […]

. September 17, 2021. The American Free Handicap (AFH) is now in its third season in this exciting year of racing.  Improvements have been made along the way and last year’s rankings proved to be quite successful in ranking the juveniles, and this is a big juvenile racing weekend. . The top ranked 2020 AFH […]

. Friday, March 6.  Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 4 opened today and will be open until Sunday at 6pm.  The Kentucky Oaks pool is also open. The Down and Dirty Derby Double Dozen thus makes its next appearance today as an appropriate guide on raising some good long shot specials.   . Visit Kentucky Derby […]

. February 7, 2020.  This isn’t the first Double Dozen for Kentucky Derby 2020, but it is the first of the year.  There wasn’t much in the way of official Derby Prep Races in January, in fact only 4 total.  But there were also other assorted 3yo stakes such as the Swale, Mucho Macho Man, […]

. 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 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 […]

. March 18, 2019. It’s way past time to give you an updated Kentucky Derby Double Dozen, but always better late than never. Things have been in turmoil since Santa Anita closed earlier this month, canceling the San Felipe G2 and leaving west coast contenders in a mad scramble elsewhere to prep. . Those contenders […]

. Gulfstream Saturday March 2. There was massive stakes racing at Gulfstream Park last weekend, with 9 graded stakes races and plenty of exciting finishes. Let’s recap the stakes action quickly, along with what The Grid, provided free for that day, had to say. . R5 1:30ET 8f T CanTuf-G3 4 UP: Krampus won at […]

. 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 […]