
Gulfstream Championship Season

It's my favorite time of the racing year - the Championship Season at Gulfstream Park! To be sure, things have changed at the Hallandale Beach facility, as they have in the racing world in general. Less races, lower quality, and here locally while we still have the big name trainers & riders often our stakes races do not draw the same "world class" fields they once did. And to make the handicapping more difficult there is the synthetic surface as a third track. But despite all that the racing is excellent, the weather is typically "Chamber of Commerce Postcard" perfect and there's still nothing like being AT the races. Each live racing card I'll post my analysis and betting selections. "And they're off!" Check out my handicapping records by clicking my photo at left.
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Gulfstream 2025-26 Key Dates

Dec 20
Ft. Lauderdale Day

Jan 24
Pegasus World Cup Day

Jan 31
Holy Bull Day

Feb 28
Fountain of Youth Day

March 28
Florida Derby Day
Viking Rivers: Christmas Along The Elbe
December 5 - 15

I WILL be handicapping Week 2 of the Championship Meet, and probably will have all the selections online prior to our 10:45pm departure Friday December 15. But we will be spending the next ten days in the Czech Republic & sailing through Germany to visit the festive Christmas Markets of Europe! Follow our adventure HERE.

Week 1: Opening Week at Gulfstream
Nov 27-30 After "pre-season" racing from the Fair Grounds and Churchill last weekend, we got the winter in South Florida started on Thanksgiving Day and continued through the weekend. After a slow start on Thursday I picked up five stakes wins, hit an amazing $19 winner and won my BEST Bets on Friday & Saturday before finishing the week with a perfect four-for-four Sunday! Four days of racing next week from South Florida.
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CLICK HERE for this week's pics & stories.




Week 0:
Opening Weekend at the Fair Grounds
Nov 20/22 We kicked off the Winter Racing Season on Thursday Nov 20 with the Opening Day card in New Orleans. Got our first winner and our first stakes win of the season which will run thru the end of March, culminating on Florida Derby Day at Gulfstream. Next week is Opening Week at the Hallandale Beach venue and I'll be there for that big event for sure. CLICK HERE to read the stories and see the pics from the first week of the winter racing season for 2025-26.





Gulfstream Championship Season 2024-25



Gulfstream 2024




Florida Derby
Day 2024


What a great way to close out the 2023-24 Winter Season on the biggest day of the meet, Florida Derby Day. We hosted a group of sixteen friends & family for the day at the races, including several first time Derby goers. CLICK HERE for a "virtual Scrapbook" of the day at the race. I played both the Gulfstream Derby card and the Arkansas Derby card in Hot Springs. I provided a detailed analysis in a program for all sixteen guests. It was an exciting day of racing and just THE BEST to catch up and visit with everyone. On the track I WON both the Florida Derby AND the Arkansas Derby. To read all the stories from the final week, CLICK HERE.



Gulfstream 2021-22




Gulfstream 2020-21






































