Weekend Winners Club

. Saturday, April 11, 2020.  Oaklawn Park has a big race card going today, highlighted by the Oaklawn Mile for $150k and the featured inaugural Oaklawn Stakes for $200k.  Altogether there are 12 races on the card and over 130 horses running after morning scratches.  . As we’ve said before, the fields are stacking up […]

Dirty Double Derby Dozen- April 5 2020 – Kentucky Derby Top 25 . April 5, 2020. Kentucky Derby Double Dozen and One Top 25 Rankings. This may be the last chance to get in your futures bets for the Kentucky Derby as Pool 4 closes today, and I wanted to wait to recap some of […]

. April 3, 2020.  The Kentucky Derby Futures Pool 4 opens Friday and will run through Sunday, despite the Kentucky Derby being postponed until September. Initially this weekend we were to see three major exciting and historical Kentucky Derby prep races:  Santa Anita Derby G1, Wood Memorial G2, and Blugrass G2.  These have all been […]

Gulfstream Park to Host $750k Florida Derby G1 despite Global Dampanic . Saturday, March 2, 2020.  Gulfstream Park may be closed for in-person spectators, but the racing continues this weekend with a spectacular 14 race card on Saturday headlined by the $750k, Grade 1 Florida Derby.  180 horses are entered on the day, competing for […]

. . Wednesday, March 18, 2020.  Racing continues at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans this weekend with its biggest race day of the year.  8 stakes racing culminating in the $1 Million Grade 2 Louisiana Derby will have over 140 horses competing for $2.6 million in purses. . You won’t be watching any live professional […]

. 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 […]

. Saturday, March 14, 2020.  Turfway Park has the famous Jeff Ruby Steaks G3 today, which is an excellent pun and proof that Jeff Ruby is still a cool dude. I recall him visiting our table at his restaurant a decade or so ago and telling us how he recently kicked out OJ Simpson because […]

Thursday, March 5, 2020.  The Kentucky Derby and Oaks Futures Pool 3 opens on Friday March 6 and will run through Sunday March 8.  The favorite as usual is the field (all other 3yo’s) of which there are several prominent ones not listed in the pool, some of which are running this weekend. . . […]

. Tuesday, March 3, 2020.  Yesterday we looked at the odds of all the winners and our Grid long shot specials who won and hit the board on the huge stakes day of February 29 at Gulfstream Park.  Today we look at the fractions of all the dirt races on the day, with a close […]

. Saturday, February 15, 2020. Fairgrounds has it’s biggest day of the year so far, by far. Two Risen Star G2 fields with 25 horses entered, with each worth 50 Kentucky Derby points to the winner. Derby Double Dozen #2 Anneau D’or will run along with 3 other ranked 3yo colts. . Preceding that will […]