Weekend Winners Club

. 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 […]

. Monday, May 31, 2021.  Santa Anita has a big day of racing starting at 4PM Eastern or 1PM California time.  Grade 1 racing includes the Hollywood Gold Cup, Gamely, and Shoemaker Mile, all with fields of 7 or less as is the norm nowadays.  Let the Precapping begin. First get today’s Free Grid. . […]

. Sunday, May 16, 2021. Sunny Santa Anita has a mandatory Jackpot 6 payout today with a $550k carryover coming in. That means a couple of things. First, you don’t need a unique ticket to win; anyone with the all the winners on their 20ct (or more) ticket ticket will win part of the final […]

. Saturday, September 26, 2020.  Sunny Santa Anita has 7 stakes races today, including 5 graded races and 5 contests offering an automatic slot to one of the Breeders’ Cup races in November.  Thus, the action is hot, and the weather is warm but not quite hot, as usual for sunny southern cal. . Racing […]

. June 6, 2020.  Santa Anita is finally holding their Derby and Oaks two months late this year, as well as the Hollywood Gold Cup and a few other stakes races included turf runs for 3yo’s.  Yes, the short fields are back in business at SA, with the average stakes field size 6 and the […]

. Friday, May 29 we posted predictions for every race at Santa Anita.  Recently we’ve been doing a report card for every race day predictions which are all posted before the first race of the day.  Then we give ourselves a grade.  I have to admit, we’ve been doing well on these posts.  We give […]

. Friday, May 29.  While eastern tracks are busy taking races off turf with huge fields of 20 that they have to cut down to 12 every day, it remains sunny at Santa Anita where they have much shorter but still competitive fields.  There’s a Pick 6 Jackpot carryover of $487k today. . . A […]

. Tuesday, May 26.  Santa Anita expert picks for Monday May 25 were given along with the free Grid.  You’re welcome.  The grade given was A+ because the Grid kicked ass along with our picks based on the analysis of the Grid figures. Let’s do a quick recap. Payouts given for $1 Exacta, 50 cent […]

. Monday, May 25.  Sunny Santa Anita offers a welcome break from the rainy eastern tracks this Memorial Day, hosting and 11 race card with three graded stakes races: Monrovia G2, Gamely G1, and the featured Shoemaker Mile G1 which is worth an automatic entry to the Breeders’ Cup Mile On November 7 at Keeneland. […]

. Friday, May 15, 2020.  Major tracks around the US are open for business this weekend, including the reopening of Santa Anita and the delayed opening of Churchill Downs.  Other popular tracks such as Golden Gate and Charles Town also are finally open.  Large fields abound at these and other open tracks. . Oaklawn, Gulfstream, […]