Weekend Winners Club

. November 22, 2018. It’s never too early to start betting the 2019 Kentucky Derby, as evidenced by Derby 19 Futures Pool 1 opening on Thanksgiving Day 2018, and available until Nov.25. . . The odds will change each day and you can lock in at those odds by betting by the end of each […]

. Wednesday, November 21. Zia Park Championship Day is here! The biggest day of the year for Zia Park has (count em) 7 stakes races, with exactly $1 million up for grabs in purse money, between all the races . . Here’s the lineup, starting at 1:21PM Zia time in race 4: Zia Juvenile $75k […]

. Sunday, November 4. Stakes racing continues at the Aqueduct today with the Nashua G3 for 2yos. It’s a great day for racing and AQ has a Pick 6 carryover going in today. . . The featured race has only 6 horses but it’s a solid competitive field of maiden winners looking to achieve the […]

. Friday, November 2, Churchill Downs. . Friday’s focus race is the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 Stakes (BCJ). In an excellent day of racing that includes 7 stakes races, 5 or which are graded at the Churchill Downs on Friday, and 7 total races for juveniles. Many eyes will be on race 9, as people […]

. 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, 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 […]

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. […]