Weekend Winners Club

. Friday, May 15, 2020.  Major tracks around the US are open for business this weekend, including the reopening of Santa Anita and the delayed opening of Churchill Downs.  Other popular tracks such as Golden Gate and Charles Town also are finally open.  Large fields abound at these and other open tracks. . Oaklawn, Gulfstream, […]

. Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Churchill Downs officially announced the postponement of the Kentucky Derby until September 5, at which point the coronavirus causing global panic will have been magically cured. Governor Larry Hogan followed suit and decreed the Preakness postponed to September as well. . . The only prior postponement of the famous Triple […]

. February 7, 2020.  Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 2 opens on Friday and will go on through Sunday.  Note that the odds will change in real time daily.  The morning line favorite is “all other 3yo’s” as usual, and the individual favorite is Tiz the Law after his Holy Bull G3 win last week. . […]

.. December 12, 2019. The first 2020 Kentucky Derby Double Dirty Dozen and One is finally here. It takes time to get things right, but we have a legacy to uphold here, like getting most of the top 5 Derby finishers making the top 10 in December. . KENTUCKY DERBY CENTRAL. . Of course this […]

. Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 1 is active and available on all betting sites and OTB’s. Unfortunately, our 1st Derby Dozen for the year is planned to be released next week on Wednesday, after the pool is over. . . The Dozen planned release of Dec.3 is specifically because we want to see how the […]

. Thursday, June 13 2019. Churchill Downs has yet another big race day this weekend as the major racing shifts back from Belmont on Saturday night with 5 graded stakes races including the formerly G1 Stephen Foster, which was downgraded to G2 status this year. . . The 11 race night card is scheduled to […]

. 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. […]

. Saturday, May 4. Churchill Downs. . So it’s getting late on Saturday afternoon, and despite all the excess partying going on wherever you are, you’re been playing it cool about Derby talk, telling people you want to wait to see what the odds are. But the bottom line is, you don’t know who the […]

. Friday, May 1, 2019. Churchill Downs. . You’ve probably heard the popular horse racing phrase before, “pace makes the race.” This is very true in horse racing, but if only if it were as easy as it sounds. The truth is that pace can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to predict. . Not […]