The $125,000 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday, a 1 1/8-mile test for newly turned 3-year-old fillies with Ramify the 5-2 morning-line favorite, is a steppingstone on New York’s road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 2, Wide open field of nine talented fillies set to contest the Busanda Saturd...
Not only did Cyclone State lead into the turn, the Iowa-bred pulled away from the field in the stretch and easily won the $150,000 Jerome Stakes on a chilly Saturday at Aqueduct. Trained by Chad Summers, the 3-year-old McKenzie colt was eight lengths ahead by the eighth-pole and cruised home by 3 ½...
Way back in the day, Leonard Jerome (1817-1891) was as big as you can get. The super-rich New York financier built Jerome Park, a state-of-the-art showplace in the Bronx where the first Belmont Stakes was run in 1867. Jerome also was the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, one of the giants o...
Not many horses win a race then has it renamed in their honor a few years later. But there are not many horses like Cigar, who won 16 races in a row, went 10-for-10 in 1995, and was a two-time Horse of the Year. 2024 Cigar Mile: Grade 1 Talent in a Grade 2 Race […]...
The 2025 racing schedule in New York released this week adds another new twist as the renovation of Belmont Park continues: Not only will the $2 million Belmont Stakes be run at Saratoga Race Course again (June 7), the Fourth of July Racing Festival is being moved upstate as well. Who can argue agai...
Ways and Means powered her way to a four-length victory in the $200,000 Gallant Bloom Stakes (G2) over a sloppy track at Aqueduct on Sunday. The 3-year-old filly trained by Chad Brown will be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) on Nov. 2 at Del Mar. Ways and Means is headed [&h...
There is a time and a season for everything, and trainer Christophe Clement believes the moment has arrived for Breath Away to take the important next step. Breath Away (8-1) will try to secure her first graded stakes victory in the $175,000 Noble Damsel Stakes (G3), the featured race Saturday on th...
Deterministic came off a long layoff and promptly put himself in the Kentucky Derby (G1) picture with a rousing victory in the $300,000 Gotham (G3) over a sloppy Aqueduct Racetrack on Saturday. In his only other race, back on Aug. 12, Deterministic won at 7 furlongs at Saratoga. Under Joel Rosario i...
Since the first running of the Gotham Stakes (G3) in 1953, first at Jamaica Racetrack and now at Aqueduct, a lot of really good horses have reached the winner’s circle after capturing the traditional Kentucky Derby prep, including Native Dancer, Jaipur, Dr. Fager, Gone West, Devil HIs Due and Lure...
The 72nd running of the Gotham (G3) on Saturday has attracted a wide-ranging field of 13 drawn to Aqueduct Racetrack by virtue of the race’s timing, its one-turn mile, $300,000 purse and, more importantly, the 105 Kentucky Derby qualifying points awarded to the first five finishers. Trainer Brad C...
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