Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money.
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Exacta and Trifecta Strategy for Betting the 2022 Pilgrim Stakes
Like its companion race for 2-year-old turf fillies the day before, the $200,000, Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes has been a productive prep race for the Breeders’ Cup and offers the winner an expenses-paid “Win and You’re In” berth in the World Championships.
Big-Race Showdown: Picks for Champagne, Awesome Again Stakes
For the sixth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2022 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big Race Showdown.”
‘Hot Rod’ Ready to Rev Up in 2022 Lukas Classic Stakes
The $500,000, Grade 2 Lukas Classic Stakes Saturday at Churchill Downs may not be a qualifying race for the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic five weeks later, but it certainly has implications because the top three contenders could be be running in that race depending on how they perform in this one.