Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, October 5, 2019. Keeneland continues its huge opening fall meet weekend with 4 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races today, including the Breeders’ Futurity G1, First Lady G1, Shadwell Turf Mile G1, and Thoroughbred Club of America G2. The Woodford G2 is also on the card but is not a BCC race. It’s a great […]

. Thursday, July 11, 2019. Saratoga returns its legendary summer only meet today featuring two graded stakes races, the Grade 3 Schuylerville and Quick Call. We’re providing a Free Grid PP for the occasion. . . The Schuylerville G3 is a stakes race for 2yo fillies going 6f on the dirt. 4 of these fillies […]

. Sunday, June 16. Monmouth Park. Undefeated Kentucky Derby champion Maximum returns to racing in the Pegasus Stakes Sunday after skipping the Preakness and Belmont to rest up after getting clobbered by War of Will in the Derby. . . The excellent son of New Year’s Day (Street Cry) and Lil Indy looks to take […]

. Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Belmont Stakes week is here again so it’s time to overanalyze it and make some picks. While others might give you some ridiculously obvious and unhelpful facts such as, “every time the Kentucky Derby winner didn’t run in the Belmont Stakes, it was won by a non-Derby winner,” we actually […]

. 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. […]

. Wednesday, May 8, 2019. It’s been less than 4 days since America’s biggest race, in which there was an unprecedented disqualification of the actual winner following an objection and a lengthy stewards review, followed by an appeal which was quickly denied, followed by arguments across the world, followed by tempers which are still flaring. […]

. May 2019 NTRA Graded Stakes schedule and highlights: . May 3: Kentucky Oaks G1 and big undercard May 4: Kentucky Derby G1 and massive undercard May 11: Man O War G1 and Peter Pan G3 at Belmont May 17: Black Eyed Susan G2 and Pimlico Special G3 May 18: Preakness G1 and big undercard […]

. Saturday, May 4. Churchill Downs. . So it’s getting late on Saturday afternoon, and despite all the excess partying going on wherever you are, you’re been playing it cool about Derby talk, telling people you want to wait to see what the odds are. But the bottom line is, you don’t know who the […]

. Friday, May 1, 2019. Churchill Downs. . You’ve probably heard the popular horse racing phrase before, “pace makes the race.” This is very true in horse racing, but if only if it were as easy as it sounds. The truth is that pace can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to predict. . Not […]