We begin the final major round of races for the Road to the Kentucky Derby, and we will head to the Fair Grounds in New Orleans for the Grade 2 Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby. We have 12 horses fighting for their share 200 points (including 100 points to the winner) and potentially a spot in one of the 20 Kentucky Derby gates
Saturday is the main event for the Turfway Park season, and their big race is the Jeff Ruby Steaks, which will award 200 points (100 to winner, 50 to runner up, 25 for third, 15 for fourth, 10 for fifth), and just like the Louisiana Derby, will give a few runners a ticket to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby.
Don’t adjust your eyes, as we will be taking a Friday race this week from Santa Anita this week as we will look at the seventh race on their card as optional claimers will race one mile on the turf course. We have nine horses entered into this race that will go to the post at approximately 7:08 pm Eastern time.
After a successful trip to Tampa Bay Downs, we head down I-75 like we seem to do on Thursdays for a day at Gulfstream Park
We head back to familiar grounds today as we head to our Wednesday stomping grounds (for what I think will be until the beginning of May) as we head to Tampa Bay Downs for today’s eighth race
We had back to Will Rogers Downs for the Tuesday Quills Picks Winners where once again, they do have a three-year-old stakes race here, and today, it is the Welder Stakes going 6 furlongs on the main track. Post time is scheduled for 4:57 pm Eastern Time.
Happy Monday everyone and today, I am adding a second race for a reason. First, the featured race is the seventh race at Will Rogers Downs, which is in Oklahoma, and I’m adding the ninth race at Parx, which is of major interest to us here at Bleacher Brothers, as our unofficial horse, Uncle Ernie is running today.
Top of the mornin’ to ya and Happy St. Patrick’s Day, as we head to Santa Anita for the Sunday edition of Quills Picks Winners for the appropriately named Irish O’Brien Stakes
With no Kentucky Derby prep races until next weekend, we head to Oaklawn Park for today’s ninth race,