Weekend Winners Club

. Monday, June 21, 2021.  Admittedly we don’t do recaps very often, but as time permits today, let’s recap the precap of Belmont for Saturday at Belmont.  We had some good winners and other long shots hitting the board using the Grid.   . You will notice that unlike the entire rest of the media, […]

. Saturday, June 19, 2021.  Belmont Park has a great race card lined up today, with almost 100 runners in 10 races after morning scratches.  The featured races are the two NY Stallion stakes, 1 each for male or female, at 7f on turf.  . Today we’ll break down the two Stakes races and call […]

. Tuesday, June 16, 2021.This just in from the NYRA.  Saratoga will open with full capacity on July 15, featuring two graded stakes races.  Belmont general admission will resume on June 24.   Here are the details. . To entice people into receiving Covid vaccinations, anyone with the CDC vaccination card will receive free admission to […]

. June 2021. The latest Thoroughbred Stakes schedule for North America, Japan, and Ascot is now amended and released. Belmont Park will kick off the June Stakes schedule with the legendary Belmont Stakes weekend. .

. Tuesday, June 1, 2021.  The Belmont Stakes had its post draw today with official posts and morning lines issued.  As luck (or lack thereof) would have it, we lost another good long shot.  Last week we lost Brooklyn Strong and this week UAE Derby winner Rebel’s Romance is out.  . So now all 5 […]

. May 26, 2021.  The Belmont Stakes is now 10 days away and we’re evaluating 10 horses competing for the last leg of the Triple Crown, which was the first leg last year, but that’s another story.  The contestants are of course, possibles and probables only, as nothing will be official for another week. . […]

. Saturday, October 10, 2020. It’s another big Breeders’ Cup preview day, this time at Belmont Park, which is hosting 4 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Challenge (BCC) Races.  That means the winner of each of these gets an automatic entry to a specific Breeders’ Cup race. . Last week the bulk of the action was […]

. Saturday, August 29, 2020.  Saratoga has another Saturday saturated with graded stakes such as the Saranac, Sword Dancer, and AmSterdam, and Forego Stakes. I tried to put as many S’s in there as possible in case anyone is reading it out loud. . The initial outlook is that the main track is muddy and […]

. Saturday, August 15, 2020.  Monmouth Park is hosting a last chance race to Run for the Roses next month, the Pegasus Stakes.  No, it’s not the $1 Million race in January at Gulfstream, but it does offer 20 points to the winner to help a Kentucky Derby ticket, and 8-4-2 for the also rans. […]

. Saturday, August 8.  Saratoga is having its historically biggest race day of the year today, with no fans in the stands, which is quite a strange spectacle.  The Travers G1 “Midsummer Derby” is the featured race, preceded by the Test G1 and several other graded stakes. . This also the last 100 point prep […]