Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, March 6, Tampa Bay Downs will host 5 stakes races today, 3 graded, highlighted by the Tampa Bay Derby.  Before that, the Florida Oaks, Hillsborough, Columbia, and Challenger Stakes will fill out a great race card for Saturday.  Racing starts at 12:17 so hurry up! . Kentucky Derby preps and other big stakes […]

. Friday, March 6.  Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 4 opened today and will be open until Sunday at 6pm.  The Kentucky Oaks pool is also open. The Down and Dirty Derby Double Dozen thus makes its next appearance today as an appropriate guide on raising some good long shot specials.   . Visit Kentucky Derby […]

Gulfstream Park Saturday Feb.27:  Gulfstream Mile, FOY, Davona Dale, Oh My.  Stakes Precap . Saturday, February 27.  Gulfstream Park in sunny Miami hosts the best North American stakes card of the month today, with 9 stakes races, 8 of which are graded.  The highlight of course is the Fountain of Youth G2, but also we […]

. Friday, February 12, 2021.  A new edition of the 2021 Kentucky Derby Futures Pool, number 3 to be exact, is underway this weekend.  Remember to place your bets by Sunday at 6PM ET, regardless of whatever this 2:59AM time that it keeps stating on the TVG site. . But also remember, you get locked […]

. Saturday, February 6.  Tampa Bay Downs is getting its stakes racing underway with 3 graded stakes races including the Tampa Bay, Sam Davis, and Endeavor.  The listed Suncoast Stakes for 3yo fillies and Sam Davis G3 top off a big 3yo day with several maiden races on the undercard. . . The featured Sam […]

. 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 […]

. Sunday, September 6, 2020.  Just when you thought all the Derby talk was done, it’s not.  Another September Derby will run today at Del Mar as a dozen horses will compete in the G3 Derby on turf.  There’s also a $750k Derby at Kentucky Downs this week, and don’t forget the Olahoma and Canadian […]

. September 2, 2020.  The Derby Dirty Dozen had to be redone again, a week later, as another rash of defections went through, another pointless horse was added, and a formerly on then off trail again was on again as a last minute entry that wasn’t on anyone’s radar as of last week.   . […]

. Wednesday, April 26, 2020.  The long awaited (almost) final and Definitive Derby Dozen is here. Normally it’s the Double Dozen but the field has finally narrowed down to 21 after the year long battle of attrition.  In the last Dozen 2 months ago, even after the removal of Nadal and Charlatan, there were still […]