It’s Big Cap weekend and there are some other preps that are calling you to action ! – As always, use these as some food for thought before downloading your E-Z Win Forms and receiving the best handicapping data to make your day a winner. This is when the tempo picks up and the preps […]
Every week brings horse players another step closer to the Derby. – If you’re not a racing fan you wouldn’t get it in a thousand years. There’s something magical about the first Saturday in May. I’m not sure if it’s the beauty, the pageantry or the building excitement of watching the process funnel down to […]
This is the final big stakes weekend for Hollywood Park. They opened the doors in 1938, and it’s been home to the who’s who of California racing for decades. The final day of racing is slated for 12/22/13, but in the meantime be sure to watch and wager on some value packed action that […]
Kentucky racing is giving you a double-dip of Thoroughbred action. Normally Turfway Park would be running in the September, but now the dates have shifted to Churchill Downs. Add in the undulating European turf racing at Kentucky Downs and you have a bluegrass festival. Winning Ponies has your back, and here is a glimpse of […]
The month of April brings the beauty of a new season. As the grass turns greenish-blue, and the buds on the trees explode into action. One could only assume that heaven has fallen to earth. That is the circle of life in the bluegrass state. Only one thing could make this season perfect, and that […]
Winners of last weekend’s two top Breeders’ Cup Challenge races have several things in common, including being victorious in each Grade 1 contest for the second consecutive year. Flat Out surged to a head victory in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup over the pacesetting Stay Thirsty, his first triumph since defeating Drosselmeyer last […]
The heat of summer is rounding third and heading for home. It won’t be long until we gather to watch the greatest Thoroughbreds in the world take the national stage for the Breeders’ Cup. But, that is off in the distance, as we have the Mid-Summer Derby at hand. A sunny day when some of […]
They always say that the grass is greener and that is 100% true this weekend in Chicago. Arlington Park has a stellar 12-race card that goes postward at 1:15 p.m. ET, and there is a guranteed $200,000 pick-four that runs through races 9 – 12. The weather looks great with a high of 75 degrees […]
While many of your friends and relatives will be hitting the shopping malls on the Friday after Thanksgiving, you should know that racing will be in full swing with many tracks open coast to coast. From Thanksgiving Day till Sunday you can find large and small stakes races on almost every circuit, as well as […]