Weekend Winners Club

. March 27, 2018. It’s about that time to take a look at who is already in this year’s Kentucky Derby field for 2018, being that it is less than 6 weeks away. Then the fun part: we’ll analyze those that could, should, or would get in. . Based on last year’s model, which used […]

. Monday, March 26. The Double Derby Dozen, or Doug’s top 25 Kentucky Derby contenders, has been reranked again this week after the latest action. . A slight shakeup at the top has been made since Noble Indy and Runaway Ghost broke through with impressive victories in their final Derby preps. . Regardless, most of […]

. Saturday, March 24. Fairgrounds has its big race day of the spring meet featuring the Louisiana Derby G2 after the Fairgrounds Oaks G2, Muniz Memorial G2, New Orleans Handicap G2, and several other assorted stakes races. . In the featured Derby, Risen Star G2 winner Bravazo will take on Southwest G3 winner My Boy […]

. March 12, 2018. Finally, the long awaited, next iteration of the Derby Dozen is out! These rankings are made regardless of points, but simply based on who the best Kentucky Derby contenders are. . . Good Magic remains on top of the rankings, despite a loss in the paceless Fountain of Youth. In his […]

. Saturday Feb 3 It will be a very special day at Gulfstream Park, with 8 races for 3yos, fillies and colts, including 5 graded stakes races including the Holy Bull, Swale, Forward Gal, Sweetest Chant, and Dania Beach. We will cover just the stakes races here for the sake of brevity. As usual, follow […]

5 G1 graded stakes races are set for Saturday Sep.30 at Santa Anita, including the now 4-horse Zenyatta stakes, Chandler, Frontrunner, Rodeo Drive, and Awesome Again. . Obsessive Kentucky Derby handicappers like me who try to figure it out at least 6 months early will have eyes on the Frontrunner G1. . Yes Baffert has […]

. Monday, April 3, 2017 Churchill Downs . This week we keep the top 3 intact, despite 5 new championship series winners since the last top 24, two weeks ago. Gunnevera stays on top despite losing the Florida Derby, a race he didn’t need to win, and probably could not have with Always Dreaming having […]

. Monday, March 6, 2017 Churchill Downs . Major shakeups at the top of the Derby Dozen the past couple weeks, not just because there were some new winners in the first 3 Derby Championship Series races, stamping their Kentucky Derby tickets and vaulting to the top 3 spots on the Derby Points Leaderboard. . […]

. Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Churchill Downs . Irish War Cry (Curlin) remains atop the Derby Dozen this week, because I said he is. Tis true, One Liner was most impressive in the Southwest Stakes G2, and there was some internal debate (inside my own head) over whether to promote him to 2nd or 3rd. […]

Monday, Febuary 20, 2017 Oaklawn Park Happy President’s Day! It’s a big race day at Oaklawn as they host the Razorback G3 for older horses and the Southwest G3 for 3yo’s. The Razorback G3 features 8 of the nation’s top racers from 4 and up, running 8.5f on dirt. The prohibitive favorite is last year’s […]