Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday June 5 Churchill Downs . It’s been a few weeks since we said anything about Churchill Downs, probably since the Kentucky Derby, but they’ve still got a lot of summer racing on tap. This weekend we have a Pick 6 Jackpot of $490k. It’s a shame that it only increased $10k from yesterday. […]

. Monday, May 23 Churchill Downs . The annual running of the Louisville Handicap G3 for 3 and up for 12f on the turf was the featured race at Churchill Downs last weekend. . Favored Roman Approval was 2-1 but could not close the deal, getting passed by 4-1 Johns Kitten who came from last […]

. Thursday, May 18 Churchill Downs . A lot of hoopla is going on at Pimlico this week, and we already have the Preakness Grid posted for public download if you check one of the links on the right. . In the meantime, we haven’t done anything for Churchill since the Derby, and this week […]

. Sunday, May 8, 2016 Churchill Downs . There are plenty of armchair jockeys today and throughout the week that will say this jockey should have done that, etc. We’re not here to do that. I think most of them did pretty well under the circumstances, particularly the top 4. . The other group of […]

. Sunday, May 8, 2016 Churchill Downs . In the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby, it’s a great time to look back and see how we did rating the horses that were pointed toward the run for the roses, and what we did to prepare people. . In this article, we’ll look at how we […]

. Saturday, May 7, 2016 Churchill Downs . On TV you sometimes see analysts predicting how a big race will play out at each point in the race, knowing they have 100% chance of getting most of it wrong. . Especially in a race with 20 horses, it’s 100% impossible to predict where each horse […]

. Friday, May 6 Churchill Downs . One way you can almost always root out a lot of non-contenders in the Kentucky Derby is to throw those out that didn’t finish in the money in their last Derby prep, and more specifically if they didn’t finish 1st or 2nd in one of the 5 major […]

. Friday, May 6, 2016 Churchill Downs . First let’s look at how the pace might affect this year’s Kentucky Derby. I heard Randy Moss and other commentators say that there are a whole lot of closers and not much speed up front in this year’s field. . This is absolutely true. There are only […]

. Friday, May 6, 2016 . Cathryn Sofia came into the Ashland G1 stakes last month on a tear, winning her first 4 career races by 22, 16, 7 and 5 lengths. The last 3 were stakes races, the last 2 G2’s. . . In the Ashland, she got up to duel in the stretch […]

Friday, May 6, 2016 Churchill Downs . Happy Derby and Oaks weekend! . Today is the day before the coveted Kentucky Derby, otherwise known as Kentucky Oaks day, where fillies will run for lilies instead of mostly male horses running for roses. Go figure. But there is plenty of great racing on both days, so […]