Weekend Winners Club

. November 2020. The latest stakes racing schedule for thoroughbreds in North America, Japan, and Ascot is in the sortable table below. The highlight of course is the first full weekend of the month at Keeneland with the Breeders’ Cup. . .

. Saturday, October 31.  Halloween is usually low key in the thoroughbred industry, being the week leading up to the Breeders’ Cup.  But Mahoning Valley Racing will have some horse honors today for the Best of Ohio series, which has 5 stakes races worth $500k total.   . . Racing begins at 12:15PM ET with […]

. Saturday, October 24, 2020.  Laurel is hosting the Maryland Millions day, meaning all 12 races are stakes contests and over $1 million in purse money up for grabs.  Racing starts at 11:25AM ET and extends thru 5:36 PM for a full day of great racing action at Maryland’s premier track. . Weather today at […]

. Friday, October 16, 2020.  Remington Park will host the annual Oklahoma Classics series tonight, featuring 10 stakes races worth about$1.12 million in purse money total.  It’s rare that we spotlight this small time track but it’s a million dollar Friday night card that starts at 8:07 Eastern. . . Races are mostly for 3 […]

. 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 […]

. Wed, October 7, 2020.  Breeders’ Cup Challenge races abounded around the continent last weekend and will continue this weekend.  With all the races at Belmont, Keeneland, Pimlico, and Santa Anita, the Grid kept popping up with winner after winner, and Grid long shot specials were scattered throughout. . There were so many Grid winners […]

. October 2020 Stakes Schedule for North America, Japan, and Ascot available now. Table is sortable by any column and also searchable. . .

. Friday, October 2, 2020.  Keeneland reopens today in style, with a Grade 1 and Grade 2 race, both of which are Breeders’ Cup Challenge races.  That means the winner gets an automatic spot in a Breeders’ Cup race at this track next month.  There are 7 more such  races over the course of the […]

. Wednesday, September 30.  It’s never too early to start picking the Preakness, and we began a week ago analyzing a possible field of 15.  Now that we have the final field of 11, barring any scratches, we can make some more accurate predictions.  In our previous edition, we analyzed Kentucky Derby runners historically in […]

. Saturday, September 26, 2020.  Sunny Santa Anita has 7 stakes races today, including 5 graded races and 5 contests offering an automatic slot to one of the Breeders’ Cup races in November.  Thus, the action is hot, and the weather is warm but not quite hot, as usual for sunny southern cal. . Racing […]