The November Pivot: Juvenile Campaigns Launch onto the Road to the Roses November asserts itself as the most pivotal month for juvenile Thoroughbreds, marking the definitive shift from short-distance sprint campaigns to the demanding endurance required of potential Triple Crown contenders. This peri...
The 156th Belmont Stakes (G1) is Saturday, June 8, at Saratoga Race Course. The 1 ¼-mile race, shortened from 1 ½ miles due to the change of venue as the Belmont Park rebuild continues, is the final leg of the Triple Crown. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. MYSTIK DAN By US Ra...
The 156th Belmont Stakes (G1) is Saturday, June 8, at Saratoga Race Course. The 1 ¼-mile race, shortened from 1 ½ miles due to the change of venue as the Belmont Park rebuild continues, is the final leg of the Triple Crown. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. DORNOCH There proba...
Thorpedo Anna delivered an overpowering performance in the $500,000 Acorn Stakes (G1) on Friday at Saratoga Race Course, blowing away the field in a 5 ½-length romp over Leslie’s Rose. Oaks winner Thorpedo Anna won the first leg of the filly Triple Tiara The 3-year-old star filly, trained by Kenn...
And here we go again! The Belmont Stakes (G1), the final leg of the Triple Crown, is Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. It’s the first time the Belmont is being held at the Spa, the iconic track in upstate New York, and the distance has been shortened to 1 ¼ miles from 1 ½ miles […]...
Handicapping the Manhattan Stakes (G1) brings to mind an old-fashioned wrestling tag-team match. Nine will contest the grassy Manhattan Stakes In one corner is the duo from the Chad Brown barn: I’m Very Busy and Program Trading. Across the ring are trainer Charlie Appleby’s pair of Nations Pride...
Five weeks ago, Thorpedo Anna set the stage for stablemate Mystic Dan’s upset in the Kentucky Derby (G1) when she ran off to a 4 ¾-length win over champion Just F Y I in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), opening the gate for Kenny McPeek and Brian Hernandez, Jr. to become the first trainer-jockey combo to ...
Shortening the distance of the Jaipur Stakes (G1) did not lessen trainers’ and owners’ enthusiasm for the turf sprint Saturday at Saratoga on the Belmont Stakes (G1) undercard. The race attracted an overflow field of 16 with starters limited to 12. That put Grooms All Bizness, Outlaw Kid, Americ...
On a cloudy (but not rainy) opening day at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga, the adage “bet the gray on a cloudy (or rainy) day” was spot on in the $250,000 Belmont Gold Cup (G2). The Grey Wizard proved best in the opening day feature at The Spa The Grey Wizard came through [&helli...
Horseracing is full of mysteries, which makes it such an intriguing puzzle for handicappers. And they have a doozy in front of them Saturday in the $1 million Metropolitan Handicap (G1), the top undercard feature on Belmont Stakes Day at Saratoga. Breeders' Cup Classic Winner is the Met Mile Favorit...
Rain or shine, let the festival begin. The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course opens Thursday, with a poor weather forecast and an excellent four days of racing featuring 24 stakes worth $10.25 million. Saratoga's First Belmont Stakes Racing Festival gets underway Thursday The 156...
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