Weekend Winners Club

. Friday, July 5. Yes it’s Prairie Meadows getting the nod 2 days in a row in Free Grid Week. Why? it’s really the only track with anything significant going on Friday. The Cornhusker G3 and Iowa Derby highlight a great 10 race card with 2 other stakes races. . . The Cornhusker Handicap favors […]

. Thursday, July 5. Still celebrating Independence and Dominion Week, we have another Grid today. Prairie Meadows? Yes! Prairie will have 3 stakes races including the Iowa Oaks G3, Iowa Distaff, and Saylorville. 10 races out on the Prairie tonight. . Download Prairie Meadows Thursday Grid here. .

. Wed, July 4: Happy Independence Day from Monmouth Park, NJ, which is hosting the Jersey Girl stakes on their 9 race card. They also have a $80k Pick 6 Jackpot rolling into the day, and are part of the TVG Super 5. Free Grid Week continues. . . Get Wednesday Monmouth Grid here. .

. Tuesday, July 3. Parx enters the Free Grid Week rotation today with the Dr. James Penny Memorial G3 stakes on turf. The field is only 6, but there are 8 other races to choose from. . . Philadelphia, the home of Parx racetrack, is also the home of the Liberty Bell and the location […]

. Monday, July 2. Happy Dominion and Independence Week! To celebrate the occasion, we will have a Free Grid PP every day this week. We start with Hastings today which is in a province far far away. . . There weren’t many tracks to choose from today in the first place, so Hastings made the […]

. Saturday, June 30. Gulfstream Park has another big race day in its legendary year-round racing meet. The Summit of Speed is highlighted by the Smile Sprint G3 for all horses and Princess Rooney G2 for fillies and mares. Listed stakes Carry Back and Azalea will be for 3yos and 3yof’s respectively. . All eyes […]

. Saturday, June 23. Thistledown has it’s big day of the year with the Ohio Derby, featuring mostly some great horses that either didn’t make the Kentucky Derby or didn’t do much in it. . Flameaway, Lone Sailor, Dream Baby Dream, Diamond King and Core Beliefs highlight an initial field of 12 in what looks […]

. Saturday, June 16, Churchill Downs. Horse racing has not suddenly come to a halt after Justify won the Triple Crown! Churchill Downs has it’s 2nd biggest race day of the year on Saturday, hosting 5 graded stakes races. . Kicking off the stakes racing will be the Matt Winn G3, featuring Baffert’s Sir Barton […]

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. […]