Happy Kentucky Oaks Friday & May Day! 🌸🌹💐🌼🌷🌸 "It's gonna be May!" We’ve been working since November to get to this weekend, and we hope you’re as excited as we are for Kentucky Oaks Day. It’s been a good week so far, and there’s a full eight hours of action today featuring some of the top horses in the world at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Yesterday was another solid day, with us picking 5 of 11 winners. Race 8 had too many scratches to count, but we still ended w

Happy Thurby & National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day! 🐈🐕‍🦺🐇🐈‍⬛🐢🐴 We’re just one day away from the Kentucky Oaks and two days away from the Derby. Today is another chance for the locals to show up in their Derby best at lower prices, and we’re all for that. It used to be more accessible to everyone, but many high-priced corporate sponsors have priced most people out. Yesterday was our best day of the meet, and we’re hoping that means we’re hitting our stride at just the righ

Happy Winsday & National Shrimp Scampi Day! 🍤 As we draw closer to the day we’ve been preparing for since late November, our anticipation grows with each card we post. That’s right, we’re still capping the full cards from Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. Yesterday saw us bounce back again from our dreadful weekend, as we had five top-pick winners and one additional second-pick winner, returning $4.32 with an ROI of 24% on top picks, but losing $8.72 with an ROI of -24.2% o

Happy 502's Day & National Blueberry Pie Day!🥧 After a day off, Churchill Downs continues the countdown to the Kentucky Oaks and Derby. We’re back on the track and excited to have some early‑week action for you with a solid nine‑race card to ease us into the week. On Sunday, we did better than we did on Saturday—though that’s not saying much—and we’re still not where we want to be, so we’re getting our reps in right along with you. Sunday’s card had us find 4 of 9 top-pick w

Happy Sunday & National Help a Horse Day! We told you the goal was to get as many races in as possible to get you and us ready for the Kentucky Oaks on Friday and the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, so we’re back with a nine-race card at Churchill Downs today. Yesterday was a little rough for us, as we only hit two top-pick winners and four more second-pick winners, but our best bet did win, so that’s a positive. If we’d followed our tracking of $2 win bets on both the top pick a

Happy Saturday & National Zucchini Bread Day! We’re excited to be celebrating opening day of the Churchill Downs spring meet, which means we’re just one week away from the Run for the Roses! Our goal is to bring you as much action as possible over the next week, so be on the lookout for the Lundin Line every day from today through Kentucky Derby Day next Saturday—excluding Monday, when there is no racing. Today’s opening-day card features 10 races, including one stakes race,

Happy Saturday & National Cheese Fondue Day! 🧀 We’re in a bit of a “slow” period for horse racing, even as anticipation for the 152nd Kentucky Derby continues to build. The final prep race of the season is today, but none of the runners can crack into the current top 20. So, we decided to head back to one of our favorite tracks in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and play the ponies at Oaklawn Racecourse. Oaklawn is home to four Derby prep races and three Oaks prep races, making it a

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Happy Saturday & National Corn Dog Day! 🌭 We’ve reached that time of year when the top three-year-old horses start to separate themselves from the pack and show who really has a chance to take home the Run for the Roses—and we’ll be here to help you every step of the way. Today we head to New Orleans, LA, and Fair Grounds Race Course for a “win and you’re in” day for both the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks. If you’ve followed us for any amount of time, you know we love the

Happy Saturday & Pi Day! π🥧π The road to the Kentucky Derby is heating up as we are now less than two months away from the first weekend in May, when the top three-year-olds in Thoroughbred racing will hit the track and try to launch a Triple Crown run. This week, we are headed to New Kent, Virginia, to play the ponies at Colonial Downs. If you are a diehard Lundin Line reader, you know this track. But if you are new, or don’t follow horse racing as closely, Colonial Downs m

Happy Saturday & National Flapjack Day 🥞! We are back on the Kentucky Derby prep trail today with a huge day of racing from Tampa Bay Downs. If you are reading this thinking, “Wait, I thought they covered all the prep races—there is another one from Santa Anita later. Why only Tampa Bay?”—you are in luck and you are correct. We will have coverage later today over on X of the late Pick 4, which includes another prep race. Back to the early action: we have a full card at Tampa

Happy Saturday & National Sticky Bun Day! We are back at Turfway Park with a full card of great racing, and the road to the Kentucky Derby continues today. We’ve noted that our rankings do not seem to fit well with this track, and we typically stay away, but we couldn’t resist playing the full card with so much going on in Florence, KY. We did not have the best night: only two top-pick winners, and we missed the Oaks prep winner last night, so we’re looking to rebound. Today’

Happy Friday & National Love Your Pet Day 🐶🐹🐠🐕‍🦺🐕🐢🐴 It’s rare lately we get to post on a Friday let alone a Friday afternoon! We are excited to cap the full card from Turfway Park in Florence, KY. We have 10 races to get you through this Friday night. The featured race today is in the ninth race, the $175k Cincinnati Stakes. This is an oaks prep race where 20-10-6-4-2 points will be handed out to the winners. The all weather track tends to run more like turf and with

Happy Valentine's Day & National Organ Donor Day! ❤️ We took a few weeks off from full cards as we had multiple prep races to handicap and felt it was best to put more effort into those. However, with this loaded card today from Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, LA, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to cap the whole thing. This is the first major Derby and Oaks prep where the winner could be in the starting gate in May even if they don’t run another prep. While it’s

These are our Lundin Line top rated picks for Fair Ground Race Course in New Orleans, LA

These are our Lundin Line top rated picks for Fair Ground Race Course in New Orleans, LA

Happy Saturday & National Buffet Day! Welcome to 2026, where the Lundin Line will see some changes, as noted in our recent posts. We hope the first week of the year is treating you well and that you’ll join us here all year long as we look to grow our audience and continue helping our loyal followers cash tickets with the ponies. One change you’ll see in these write-ups is a recap of how we did on our last post. The criteria we’re using are wins by our top two selections in e

Happy Sunday & National Chocolate Candy Day! 🍫 We hope you’re having a fantastic holiday season and are ready to get back to cashing tickets with us. Today, we head to SoCal—specifically Arcadia, CA—to play the ponies at Santa Anita Park. The winter meet, known as the Classic Meet, was supposed to open on Friday and will feature racing every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through April 5. Today’s card has 11 total races, including six stakes races, and was originally scheduled

Happy Saturday & National Sangria Day! 🍹🍓 As Paul Rudd said in Forgetting Sarah Marshall , “Oh, the weather outside is weather,” so why not head to the track with us and play the ponies from Fair Grounds in New Orleans, LA? That’s right, the Derby and Oaks prep trail heads to the bayou today—and so do we—as we’ve put our Lundin Line top-rated picks together for the full card, which features 12 total races and four stakes races, along with the prep races. The featured action