Weekend Winners Club

. 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. […]

. Wednesday, May 8, 2019. It’s been less than 4 days since America’s biggest race, in which there was an unprecedented disqualification of the actual winner following an objection and a lengthy stewards review, followed by an appeal which was quickly denied, followed by arguments across the world, followed by tempers which are still flaring. […]

. May 2019 NTRA Graded Stakes schedule and highlights: . May 3: Kentucky Oaks G1 and big undercard May 4: Kentucky Derby G1 and massive undercard May 11: Man O War G1 and Peter Pan G3 at Belmont May 17: Black Eyed Susan G2 and Pimlico Special G3 May 18: Preakness G1 and big undercard […]

. 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 […]

. Saturday, April 27. OK it’s a weekend before the Kentucky Derby but that doesn’t mean nothing is going on. Golden Gate has an exciting card with the grade 3 San Fran Mile and several other stakes races including the California Derby and Oaks. . . Now we’re not going to pretend that any of […]

. Saturday, April 20. Laurel Park in Maryland will have an unusual big stakes day this weekend, picking up the slack for the major tracks which are still recovering from their huge weekends and Kentucky Derby preps. Yes some other tracks are having stakes races, but Laurel is hosting 7 of them. . The race […]

. Saturday, April 13, 2019. Hot Springs, Arkansas has a huge racing weekend to get underway at 1:30PM ET, including the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby and G2 Oaklawn Handicap today, along with the Count Fleet G3 Sprint and several MSW races to see how the 3yo’s are stacking up to the big boys. . Not […]

. Saturday, April 6. Lexington, KY. It’s that time of year for Keeneland. Opening weekend and no time wasted in providing a huge stakes day with the Grade 1 stakes races: Blue Grass, Madison, Ashland, the G2 Shakertown and G3 Commonwealth. Almost 120 horses are scheduled to run today. . . In the Blue Grass, […]

. Saturday, March 30 2019. Gulfstream Park has it’s biggest race day of the year, hosting the Florida Derby G1, Pam Am G2, and GP Oaks G2 along with some other assorted stakes. Over $2 million in purse money is up for grabs, with $1 million in the Derby. . Kentucky Derby enthusiasts will have […]