Weekend Winners Club

. May 26, 2021.  The Belmont Stakes is now 10 days away and we’re evaluating 10 horses competing for the last leg of the Triple Crown, which was the first leg last year, but that’s another story.  The contestants are of course, possibles and probables only, as nothing will be official for another week. . […]

Preakness Picks for Pricks.  Precap, Past Performances, Pace Predictions, Possibilities . Saturday, May 15, 2021.  It’s the 3rd Saturday in May and therefore it’s time once again for the Preakness Stakes.  We’ll take a look at some past performances, pace predictions, and possibilities in today’s biggest race. . Obviously Medina Spirit is going to be […]

. Friday, May 13, 2021.  Preakness is upon us again, barely 6 months after the 2020 edition. Thus it is time once again for our annual study on the top Kentucky Derby and Preakness horses during the Baffert Era, which began officially in 1997 although he was training well before that. . This exercise is […]

. Wednesday, September 30.  It’s never too early to start picking the Preakness, and we began a week ago analyzing a possible field of 15.  Now that we have the final field of 11, barring any scratches, we can make some more accurate predictions.  In our previous edition, we analyzed Kentucky Derby runners historically in […]

. September 24, 2010.  It’s Pre-Preakness week, but we have a list of probables for the Preakness, so it’s a good time for an early precap of the possible contenders and their past performances.  It’s time to start narrowing down the field of 15 before we actually know the final field. . There are only […]

. 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. […]

. Saturday, April 27. OK it’s a weekend before the Kentucky Derby but that doesn’t mean nothing is going on. Golden Gate has an exciting card with the grade 3 San Fran Mile and several other stakes races including the California Derby and Oaks. . . Now we’re not going to pretend that any of […]

. Saturday, April 20. Laurel Park in Maryland will have an unusual big stakes day this weekend, picking up the slack for the major tracks which are still recovering from their huge weekends and Kentucky Derby preps. Yes some other tracks are having stakes races, but Laurel is hosting 7 of them. . The race […]

. Feb.22 2019: It’s time once again for a renewal of the Kentucky Double Derby Dozen, taking into account last weekends stakes actions in the Risen Star G2, Southwest G3, El Camino Real Derby, and Miracle Wood, the last of which is not a points race but there is some significance. Here our list included […]