Riders Up
Led by Hall of Fame horseplayer Duke Matties. A community of horseplayers playing the races together. The conversation you won't find anywhere else.
Inside the Community
Duke shares his daily work. The community talks through the day with him and asks the questions you've been holding onto. You bring your own card. You leave with a better one.
Duke's whole framework, laid out as courses. Pace, class, ticket construction, reading a track day to day. The thinking doesn't expire when the card does. It's there to study at your own speed, until it becomes your own.
Players who take the game seriously and respect the work. No touts. No noise. No chasing last week's score. Just the conversation you won't find anywhere else.
Inside the communityThe clubhouse, before the work begins.
Inside the Members' Room
What VIPs get when they take a seat in the Members' Room.
Duke walks the late California card with the community and goes over the weekend's cards. Members drive the conversation: a horse, a sequence, your own ticket, worked through together.
Duke shares his read on the field: the horses he's watching, the names on his Bet Back list, the notes he keeps on each, the plays he's making, and the calls where he's passing. You use his work to sharpen your own. You don't copy his ticket.
Direct access to Duke. Other VIPs working the same cards. Ask anything: a horse, a sequence, your own ticket. Duke responds when he can, and the community works alongside you.
Included access to every course we've built: Essentials (mindset, bankroll, ticket design), Workout Reads, and the free Beginners track, plus the archives. The library grows as Duke builds it.
Every livestream we run, from the Derby to the Breeders' Cup and other big days, included for VIPs. No additional ticket. You're already inside.
Your Host
A Hall of Fame horseplayer who has spent thirty years reading meets, building tickets, and finishing at the top of the game's biggest contests. In this community, he shows the work.
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From the Community
Duke has created a welcoming, helpful community of like-minded horseplayers. You can ask for professional advice on ticket structure, bounce ideas off other players about a potential handicapping angle and laugh about bad beat stories all in the same place. In my opinion the picks are secondary.
Ken McMahan. 2nd in the 2025 BCBC, $580,000.
Steve Byk and Ken on how Duke's livestream helped him finish 2nd in the 2025 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge.
This was my first time ever paying for a service of a professional handicapper. So glad I did it. I thoroughly enjoyed your live session. And was very impressed with your knowledge and picks.
Before the crowdThe walk to the paddock, where the community's first instincts get made.
Membership
Pick a single day, a week, a month, or a year. No application, no waitlist.
Entry
One meet at a time, led by Duke.
1 day of access
1 week of access
Billed monthly
Billed annually ($1,470/yr)
2 months free
Full Membership
The full VIP community.
1 week of access.
Billed monthly
Billed annually ($2,970/yr)
2 months freeBuilt for continuity.
The Members' Room works because it's daily. A single day doesn't get you what makes it valuable. Try a week, or go monthly.
Questions
The Clubhouse is a free community where horseplayers talk through cards together, and Duke isn't actively posting there. Featured Track is paid access to a private channel inside the Clubhouse where Duke shares his plays and his read on one meet each month. The Members' Room is the full VIP community where Duke is active every day: his plays, his notes, his Bet Back list, the Zoom sessions, the livestreams, the courses, the conversation.
The free Clubhouse is for horseplayers to talk together, and Duke isn't posting there. Featured Track members get a private channel inside the Clubhouse where Duke does post. If you want Duke active alongside you, the Members' Room is where you sit down with him.
Duke shares the work: the cards he's reading, the horses on his Bet Back list, his notes, the plays he's making, and the ones he's passing. Some days that's a full read of a card. Some days it's a few horses he's watching. The Members' Room is built so you can use his work to sharpen your own, not to copy a ticket.
Live group handicapping on Zoom. Duke walks the late California card with the community and reads into the weekend together, and members drive the conversation: a horse, a sequence, your own ticket. It's one of the best seats in the house.
Right now you can access the Essentials (mindset, bankroll, ticket design), Workout Reads (what to look for in workout video), and a free Beginners track. More are added over time, and the library keeps growing.
We usually run at least one livestream a month, depending on the racing schedule. Some months it's two or three. During slow stretches with no big stakes, we might miss one or two. The Zoom sessions still happen in between, and Members' Room VIPs get every livestream included.
Stay in the loop
Drop your name and email for occasional updates. Livestream announcements, new courses, and the next time we open new VIP seats.
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