Three Chimneys Farm’s Carina Mia earned her first career Grade I victory in style, besting an immensely talented field of five other rivals to win Saturday’s $671,000 Acorn Stakes (GI) by 1 1/4 le...
By definition, Cavorting means to “jump or dance around excitedly” and after Saturday’s Ogden Phipps (GI) at Belmont Park there’s little doubt a lot of that was going on in the Kiran McLaughli...
OK, so it’s fair to say GMB Racing’s Tom’s Ready wasn’t quite ready for the Kentucky Derby (GI) five weeks ago, but the Dallas Stewart-trained son of More Than Ready was way more than ready fo...
Exaggerator, the Preakness winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up, is clearly the most accomplished runner in the Belmont Stakes field, and for that reason he will be the heavy favorite. He also will be ...
In a previous post, I documented how favorites in the Belmont Stakes have fared over the years. While they win as often as — or even more often than — they should, they are generally overbet. Of c...
ELMONT, N.Y. – Keith Desormeaux stood alone in the box seats on the second floor at Belmont Park on Thursday morning, watching a pair of unraced 2-year-olds whom he trains work from the gate
It hardly seems like an entire year since racing witnessed American Pharoah win the first Triple Crown in 37 years, but here we are. And despite a year with no Triple Crown on the line, this year’s ...
Six of the best sophomore fillies anyone has seen in New York in a long time will line up and face the starter in Saturday’s $700,000 Acorn Stakes (GI) set at a mile over Belmont Park’s main track...
Seven of the East’s best distaffers are set to square off over 1 1/16 miles in the 48th running of the Ogden Phipps Handicap (GI), which has been carded as Belmont’s fifth race on Saturday’s Bel...
A day with 10 stakes races, nine of them graded, and six of those being Grade Is, is bound to be loaded. A day stacked with races of such high quality is bound to attract the best horses currently run...
