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Louisiana Derby Weekend, March 26 2022
We head to the Fair Grounds race track in Louisiana today for 5 races including the Louisiana Derby prep race, and then on to Santa Anita for our late day closer. There are smaller fields this week, but still plenty of good horses to chose from, I suspect another week with not enough selections to…
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2022 Derby Prep Challenge Starts Today
The Pick 6 Challenge is back for our annual Derby Prep Challenge. Each weekend we will feature a race from the Derby Prep schedule. This segment will run through April 16th, ending with the Lexington Stakes. We’ve got races from 2 different tracks this week, Laurelton Park and the Fair Grounds. Our feature race this…
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Return to Keeneland, Week 5 October 9 2021
Last week looked like it was going to be tricky, but we had 3 teams get all 6 races picked correct. What will happen this week? We’ve got 5 races from Keeneland and the Joe Hirsch from Belmont. Four of these races are breeders Cup qualifiers. Let’s see what we’ve got today. Race 1: Woodford…
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Week 2 brings races from Belmont, Churchill Downs, and Woodbine. Sept 18, 2021.
We’ve got 6 races on tap for this week with 2 each from Belmont, Churchill Downs, and Woodbine. The Jockey Club Oaks and Derby headline the start of the fall meet at Belmont. We’ve got 4 Breeder’s Cup qualifiers this week. Last week was tough picking with large fields and lots of good horses, will…
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Pick 6 Challenge is Back
Call it fate, call it a long cold winter, call it what you like, but the Pick 6 Challenge is back this year. You get six races to chose the winners for each week. Let’s have at it. It is an off week of racing in the 2020 Derby Championship Series with no races awarding…
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Kentucky Derby, Saturday May 7th
Well here we are, we finally made it to Derby Day, where the best 3 year olds square off to see who can take home the first leg of the Triple Crown. We’ve got six races to review from Churchill Downs. It will be a true Pick 6, as I selected races 7-12 on the…
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Arkansas Derby, Saturday April 16th
Well here we are with the final week of the Pick 6 Challenge, and the finally weekend of the Derby Prep Races. We have two races left for Derby hopefuls to get in, with the Lexington at Keeneland, and the Arkansas derby at Oaklawn Park. Thanks to some poor horse selection last week, the top…
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Wood Memorial and More, Saturday April 9th
Well, there were a ton, of great stakes races to chose from this weekend, and I had a really hard time choo – choo – choosing which 6 to make the Pick 6 for this weekend. There were three Derby Prep races scheduled for this weekend, the Wood Memorial, the Bluegrass Stakes, and the Santa…
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Florida Derby Day, Saturday April 2nd
Well last week we saw some upsets in the races we selected for our 6 races of the weekend. Will that be the case again this weekend? We will see. This weekend we have two derby prep races going on, the Spiral Stakes and the Florida Derby. There are a whole host of graded stakes…
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Louisiana Derby, Saturday March 26th
Well, we did pretty good on our picks last week, so let’s see if we can keep the run going this week. Six races on the day, all from the Fair Grounds racetrack. The Derby prep race for this week is the Louisiana Derby, our 5th race this week. Since there are no races with…