Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, March 14, 2020.  Turfway Park has the famous Jeff Ruby Steaks G3 today, which is an excellent pun and proof that Jeff Ruby is still a cool dude. I recall him visiting our table at his restaurant a decade or so ago and telling us how he recently kicked out OJ Simpson because […]

Precap of This Weeks’ Big 3yo races: San Felipe, Tampa Bay Derby, and Gotham Stakes. Grid PP’s . Saturday, March 7, 2020.  The Big 3 Derby Prep races of early March will be run on Saturday, with Aqueduct hosting the Gotham Stakes G3, the Tampa Bay Derby G2 at Tampa Bay Downs, and the San […]

Thursday, March 5, 2020.  The Kentucky Derby and Oaks Futures Pool 3 opens on Friday March 6 and will run through Sunday March 8.  The favorite as usual is the field (all other 3yo’s) of which there are several prominent ones not listed in the pool, some of which are running this weekend. . . […]

. Tuesday, March 3, 2020.  Yesterday we looked at the odds of all the winners and our Grid long shot specials who won and hit the board on the huge stakes day of February 29 at Gulfstream Park.  Today we look at the fractions of all the dirt races on the day, with a close […]

. Recap of the Gulfstream Feb.29 stakes racing with winners, their Grid relevance, notes, and quotes from precap.  To sum it up, we had one 18-1 top LP winner, a listed long shot special winner at 11-1, an 11-1 top EP winner, a 2-1 long shot special winner that was 8-1 morning line, and 10 […]

. Saturday, Feb.29, 2020.  Gulfstream Park will host 10 total stakes races, including 3 Grade 2 events and 6 Grade 3 races. The Fountain of Youth for 3yo’s aiming for the Kentucky Derby is the headline race. This will follow 2 stakes races for 3yo’s and 2 for 3yo fillies among the other stakes. The […]

. Sunday, February 23, 2020. Sunland Park hosts 4 stakes races today, 3 of which are for various 3yo categories, including the Mine That Bird Derby. All of the stakes are ungraded and none will issue Kentucky Derby points, but the races could be stepping stones to appear at Churchill in May. . . The […]

. Saturday, February 15, 2020. Fairgrounds has it’s biggest day of the year so far, by far. Two Risen Star G2 fields with 25 horses entered, with each worth 50 Kentucky Derby points to the winner. Derby Double Dozen #2 Anneau D’or will run along with 3 other ranked 3yo colts. . Preceding that will […]

. Saturday, February 8, 2020.  Delta Downs hosts its famous Louisiana Premier Night series tonight with 10 stakes races in various distance , age and sex categories.  None of the races are graded but there is over $900k in purse money up for grabs tonight for almost 100 runners scheduled. . . We’re not going […]

. February 7, 2020.  This isn’t the first Double Dozen for Kentucky Derby 2020, but it is the first of the year.  There wasn’t much in the way of official Derby Prep Races in January, in fact only 4 total.  But there were also other assorted 3yo stakes such as the Swale, Mucho Macho Man, […]