Weekend Winners Club

. Friday, May 13, 2021.  Preakness is upon us again, barely 6 months after the 2020 edition. Thus it is time once again for our annual study on the top Kentucky Derby and Preakness horses during the Baffert Era, which began officially in 1997 although he was training well before that. . This exercise is […]

. Saturday, April 24, 2021.  Pimlico is hosting their second biggest racing day of the year, with 6 stakes races and five 3yo contests, featuring the Federico Tesio, designed for horses training up to the Preakness Stakes. The Weber City Miss is the formal Pimlico prep for the Black Eyed Susan next month.   . […]

. 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 […]

. Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Churchill Downs officially announced the postponement of the Kentucky Derby until September 5, at which point the coronavirus causing global panic will have been magically cured. Governor Larry Hogan followed suit and decreed the Preakness postponed to September as well. . . The only prior postponement of the famous Triple […]

. Friday, May 17, Pimlico. It’s that time of year: early summer. Pimlico is in full swing about to host the Preakness Stakes tomorrow, but before we even get to Saturday racing, they have a great card going on today with 4 graded stakes and 3 listed stakes in what is traditionally known as Black […]

. 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 […]

. Friday, May 16 2018. Pimlico kicks off its biggest racing weekend of the year with the Preakness Eve card featuring the Black Eyed Susan G2, Dupont Distaff G3, Miss Preakness G3, and Pimlico Special G3, the historic race founded by the legendary match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral. . . The 14 race […]

. Tuesday, May 23 Pimlico, MD . Get the Belmont Stakes 2017 Grid Now . Let’s do a recap of the Preakness by the numbers, and review the updated charts that we provided last week showing how Kentucky Derby horses did in the Preakness and vice versa. In the first chart, we showed the modern […]

Monday, May 22 Pimlico, Maryland . Get the Belmont Stakes 2017 Grid Now . There aren’t that many armchair quarterbacks this time around, as the racing “experts” are still searching for answers to the Preakness, because they still don’t get it. . If they had used the Grid, they would understand much of it already. […]