Weekend Winners Club

. 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 […]

. Saturday, October 5, 2019. Keeneland continues its huge opening fall meet weekend with 4 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races today, including the Breeders’ Futurity G1, First Lady G1, Shadwell Turf Mile G1, and Thoroughbred Club of America G2. The Woodford G2 is also on the card but is not a BCC race. It’s a great […]

. Sunday, June 16. Monmouth Park. Undefeated Kentucky Derby champion Maximum returns to racing in the Pegasus Stakes Sunday after skipping the Preakness and Belmont to rest up after getting clobbered by War of Will in the Derby. . . The excellent son of New Year’s Day (Street Cry) and Lil Indy looks to take […]

. 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. […]

. 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 […]

. Thursday, May 2, Churchill Downs. As part of our all-inclusive Kentucky Derby angles series leading up to the run for the roses, today we take a look at the Derby jockeys and trainers, and their relevance. This is by far the easiest of all the analytics, but also one of the most relevant. . […]

. 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 […]