Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, October 20, 2018. Laurel Park, Maryland has an almost all stakes card today, hosting 11 stakes races, none graded, and finishing with a maiden race for some reason. It would have been nice to say it was an all stakes card, but alas it’s not quite. . . At any rate it’s a […]

. Sat, Sep.29. Santa Anita Park opened yesterday and gets right into very serious racing today with 4 Grade 1 races that are also Breeders’ Cup Challenge Races, meaning that the winner gets an automatic entry into the BC race of that division. . Saturday’s Races: Awesome Again G1 Stakes: BC Classic Rodeo Drive G1 […]

. Saturday, Sept.15. Churchill Downs. In the 2nd day of the fall meet, Churchill will host 3 graded stakes including the Iroquois G3, Pocohontas G2, Locust Grove G3, and Open Mind 100k. . . All eyes will be on the Pocohontas and Iroquois, both at 8.5f the 2 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Races, in which the […]

. Saturday, August 25, 2018 . Saratoga has its biggest day of its important meet today, hosting a 13 race card including 6 G1’s: The Travers, Sword Dancer, Ballerina, Personal Ensign, Forego, and Jerkens. The Ballston Spa G2 is the last stakes race, run after the Travers. . . The 13 race card starting at […]

. Saturday, July 21. Saratoga Springs, NY. It’s another Saturday in the park at Toga, hosting 2 graded races on an 11 race card. The featured bouts are the Sanford G3 followed by the Diana G1. . . The Sanford gives top 2yo’s a chance to prove their worth as some of them begin their […]

. Saturday, June 23. Thistledown has it’s big day of the year with the Ohio Derby, featuring mostly some great horses that either didn’t make the Kentucky Derby or didn’t do much in it. . Flameaway, Lone Sailor, Dream Baby Dream, Diamond King and Core Beliefs highlight an initial field of 12 in what looks […]

Monday, June 11, 2018, Belmont Park. The usual Monday morning jockeying has been going on since Saturday night, with the backers of the favorite happily saying they told you so. These were the same people who wanted to tell you so 12 times between 1978 and 2015, but couldn’t. . . Then there are those […]

. Saturday, June 9, Belmont Park. Today we look at a brief history of Triple Crown Champions, adequate to the occasion, since yet another horse, the 7th this century, is trying to win the coveted crown by winning the Belmont Stakes today in what is the longest race that any of them has faced yet. […]

. May 20, 2018. The Preakness aftermath can be categorized as a tale of two camps. In one camp, you have those that were elated at the Justify win and perhaps cashed in their winning tickets of $2.80. In camp 2, there are those immediate detractors shouting that he only won by ½ length as […]

. Friday, May 16 2018. Pimlico kicks off its biggest racing weekend of the year with the Preakness Eve card featuring the Black Eyed Susan G2, Dupont Distaff G3, Miss Preakness G3, and Pimlico Special G3, the historic race founded by the legendary match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral. . . The 14 race […]