Weekend Winners Club

. June 3, 2020.  Belmont Park is finally open for racing this year, only about a month later than usual, but better late than never.  Opening day festivities include 10 races with over 100 horses running after morning scratches, and the featured Beaugay G3 on turf, which will be contested by 5 horses, all of […]

. October 1, 2019. The latest 2019 stakes schedule for thoroughbred racing in October for mostly North America but also stakes racing in Japan and Ascot. Some great racing to kick off the final month before Breeders’ Cup. . . October 2019 highlights (full schedule below this, Breeders’ Cup Challenge races denoted by BCC): Oct.2- […]

. Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Belmont Stakes week is here again so it’s time to overanalyze it and make some picks. While others might give you some ridiculously obvious and unhelpful facts such as, “every time the Kentucky Derby winner didn’t run in the Belmont Stakes, it was won by a non-Derby winner,” we actually […]

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. […]

. Monday, May 28, 2018. Start off your Memorial Day afternoon with great racing at Belmont Park including 6 stakes races. Elmont is actually staying dry this weekend unlike the rest of the East Coast. Good time to check in and see how it’s playing. . Get Belmont Memorial Day Grid here free and easy. […]

Belmont Stakes 2017 Recap and Analysis . Monday, June 12, 2017 Belmont Park . There are plenty of Monday morning armchair quarterbacks going around after the Belmont stakes as is usual for any Triple Crown race. In our final article analyzing the Belmont Stakes beforehand, we delineated how Irish War Cry would take control in […]

. Saturday, June 10 Belmont Park Elmont, NY . The final picks are in for the Belmont Stakes, finally. It’s been a topsy turvy work with a lot of turmoil, including not just 1 of my Belmont favorites scratching or defecting, but 2 of them this time. Classic Empire, who would have been the prohibitive […]

. Wednesday, June 7 Belmont Park Elmont, NY . This morning, the post positions were drawn for the official Belmont Stakes field and morning line odds were assigned. . Get full Grid for Belmont Saturday Here . The big news of the day is that Classic Empire is out and thus drew no post. The […]

. 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 […]