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Belmont Stakes Racing Festival Set for Saratoga

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival is upon us, so let’s try to sort out what’s happening, where it’s happening, why it’s happening, and how it’s happening. First and foremost, the 156th Belmont Stakes (G1), the final leg of the Triple Crown is Saturday, June 8. For the first time, the race...
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Belmont Stakes: History and Traditions

The first Belmont Stakes was contested at Jerome Park Racetrack in The Bronx, New York, in 1866. Jerome Park was named for Leonard Jerome, who was Winston Churchill’s grandfather and a native New Yorker who made his fortune as a stock speculator. He was also part of the founding of The Jockey Club...
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Wayne Lukas: Still Classic after all these Years

In the Eighties and Nineties he was the undisputed king of thoroughbred racing, the man who changed the sport just as he had altered the quarter horse game. Wayne Lukas dominated the way Rome did as it conquered the world. He revolutionized the sport by establishing stables in New York, Florida, Ken...
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