Weekend Winners Club

. Thursday October 31, 2024.  Futures Pool 1 for the 2025 edition of the Kentucky Derby is open for business and will close on Friday November 1 at 6PM ET, which is about two hours before the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile will be contested at Del Mar. . 10 great young colts will be […]

. If there’s one only one chart that you should look at, before spending your hard-earned money on the 150th Kentucky Derby of 2024, besides The Grid of course, it’s the Major Preps History chart.  The reason is simple: You can normally cut the field in half before you even start. . Yes it’s true […]

. Friday, May 3 2024. . (Other sites will give you some blah blah blah history of Derby etc here, as if you don’t know what it is.)  Here’s the long awaited Doug’s Derby Dozen. . .   4 Catching Freedom 8-1 ML, Goldencents (Into Mischief) / Ma’am (Colonel John). It’s not that he won […]

. The second year of the Preakness Futures Pool is underway this week, with Pool 1 closing at 8PM Saturday, after two three-year- old prep races are run, and before the other 2.  The Gotham G3 at Aqueduct is slated for 5:36PM, and the depleted Fountain of Youth G2 is set for a 6:10PM post […]

. Thursday, November 9, 2023. In the Breeders’ Cup aftermath, let’s see what happened in Kentucky Derby 2024 Pool 1, which opened on Tuesday the 1st and closed the day before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 was run on Friday evening at Santa Anita. . The favorite was the field (all other 3yo males not […]

. Thursday, November 2, 2023.  Kentucky Derby pools start earlier every year, having started on Tuesday October 31 this year.  Pool 1 will end today at 6PM ET, about 25 hours before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 at Santa Anita runs on Friday. . Get the Breeders’ Cup Grid for both full days here! . […]

  . Monday, April 10.  9 days ago we released a last minute Dirty Dozen for the purpose of Kentucky Derby Pool 6 which closed on April 1 at 6pm, before the Florida and Arkansas Derbies were run, and well before the Big 3 prep races of April 8: The Wood, Bluegrass, and Santa Anita […]

. Saturday, April 1. No fooling here, this is a huge day for horse racing, in particular the Triple Crown Trail and Road to the Roses. Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 6 with 39 individual entries and the field, closes at 6pm, which will be BEFORE 11 of the entries run in the Arkansas Derby and […]

. Saturday March 25.  The Fairgrounds at New Orleans has an awesome slate of 8 stakes races, highlighted by the Louisiana Derby G2, FG Oaks G2, New Orleans Classic G2, and Muniz Memorial G2.  Other stakes include the Crescent City Derby and Oaks. 15 races total with over 160 horses! . We took last weekend […]

. March 9, 2023.  The 5th but not final Kentucky Derby futures pool opens Friday March 10th and will close Sunday the 12th.  Pool 5 also includes Kentucky Oaks potential contenders.  There are 39 individual entries in each Pool, so necessarily over half of them will not even make the field in either race. . […]