Weekend Winners Club

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Friday April 8, 2022.  Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 5 opened yesterday and will run through Saturday, rather than Fri-Sun as usual.  This constitutes a good time for the next Doug’s Double Derby Dozen +1 Top 25 to help you make your futures bets.  If you like any of tomorrow’s runners you may want to bet them today.  We are providing the Pool 5 Grid and the Top 25 on this page.

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Keeneland opened today with the Ashland and Transylvania stakes, and on Saturday  will host the Toyota Blue Grass G1, in which 4 from Pool 5 and 6 from today’s Top 25 list, with one in the top 10

Aqueduct on Saturday will run the Wood Memorial G2 with 3 of the racers both in Pool 5 and one in the top 10.

Santa Anita’s Saturday card includes the Santa Anita Derby which is still a Grade 1 despite only 6 runners.  But they include the top two in our DDD list and another in the top 10.

These are the last 3 big races in the Kentucky Derby Championship series, each of which is worth 100 points to the winner. The only remaining race will be the Lexington Stakes next weekend, but it’s only worth 20.

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For today’s list we’ll give you a snapshot so you can see some color codes.  Note than in bold are trainers that have won Triple Crown races.  We include Tim Yakteen because he’s running Baffert trainees.

Green:  Santa Anita Derby runners

Blue:  Blue Grass racers

Red:  Wood Memorial competitors

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The figures to the right are the best Brisnet, Beyer, and Equibase speed figures (all public information posted on their sites) and the average of such.

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I would love to go into explanation into all of the thought processes that went into this ranking but that would take two hours to write and at least half an hour to read. So you get the concise chart.

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Here is the sortable table of the Double Dozen and one:

Down and Dirty Derby Double Dozen and 1 as of April 8 2022

DD	Horse	FP5	ST	Sire	Trainer
1	Messier	8	EP7	Empire Maker	Yakteen(Baffert)
2	Forbidden Kingdom	8	E8	American Pharoah	Mandella Richard E
3	White Abarrio	8	EP6	Race Day	Joseph Saffie A Jr
4	Epicenter	5	EP8	Not This Time	Asmussen Steven M
5	Charge It	12	EP6	Tapit	Pletcher Todd A
6	Morello	20	EP7	Classic Empire	Asmussen Steven M
7	Smile Happy	6	P3	Runhappy	Mcpeek Kenneth G
8	Cyberknife	12	EP4	Gun Runner	Cox Brad H
9	Tiz The Bomb	12	P2	Hit It A Bomb	Mcpeek Kenneth G
10	Taiba	50	EP8	Gun Runner	Yakteen(Baffert)
11	Barber Road	30	S1	Race Day	Ortiz John Alexander
12	Simplification	15	EP4	Not This Time	Sano Antonio
13	Slow Down Andy	50	EP5	Nyquist	O'neill Doug
14	Rattle N Roll	30	P3	Connect	Mcpeek Kenneth G
15	Zandon	20	P5	Upstart	Brown Chad C
16	Classic Causeway	12	EP6	Giant's Causeway	Lynch Brian A
17	Call Me Midnight	30	S0	Midnight Lute	Desormeaux Keith
18	Un Ojo	12	P4	Laoban	Courville Ricky
19	Mo Donegal	20	P3	Uncle Mo	Pletcher Todd A
20	In Due Time	50	EP6	Not This Time	Breen Kelly J
21	Ethereal Road	50	S2	Quality Road	Lukas D Wayne
22	Emmanuel	20	E6	More Than Ready	Pletcher Todd A
23	Early Voting	20	EP6	Gun Runner	Brown Chad C
24	Zozos	30	EP7	Munnings	Cox Brad H
25	Commandperformance	12	EP5	Union Rags	Pletcher Todd A

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Note that in this top 25 list we omitted two of the top 3yo’s:  Corniche and Newgrange, both of which have accrued any Kentucky Derby points because they were trained by Bob Baffert.  It will simply be just about impossible for either to qualify for the Kentucky Derby because they’re not running in one of the big 3 races listed above, this weekend.   

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Now for one of today’s free Grids (we also provided one for Keeneland).  The Futures Pool 5 Grid will give you some insight as to how the horses stack up numerically against each other.

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After this weekend’s big 3 races, things could change to some degree.  It’s possible that a horse like Barese for example, could take another step up in class and take the Wood.  Rattle N Roll returns to the track where he had his best career race, a win in the Breeders Futurity G1.  

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It shall be interesting, and we’ll see what happens along the way on this exciting Saturday of racing.  The next Derby Double Dozen will be issued the week after the Lexington Stakes to include all of the Championship Series races.  

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Good luck in your futures betting and stay tuned for tomorrow’s free Grid!

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You can get the Grid for all your favorite tracks and races here, so check it out.

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