The Belmont Stakes trophy – officially named the August Belmont Trophy- is awarded annually to the owner of the Belmont Stakes winner. The silver bowl or cup, which was created by George Paulding-Farnham, a jeweler and metallurgist, for Tiffany & Co. in 1896, was first awar...
By The Professor (US Racing Handicapper) PRIME CONTENDERS Betting $500 on the #7 Journalism (8-5) in the Belmont Stakes commands everyone's respect as the only colt to contest all three legs of this year's Triple Crown. His gutsy win in the Preakness Stakes (G1) showed not only class but an iron wil...
Back in the parimutuel Stone Age, most American tracks offered only one multiple-race wager: the daily double on the first two races. Late arrivals often sprinted from the parking lot to avoid being shut out. Believe it or not, the New York Racing Association didn’t introduce the Pick 6 until 1985...
It’s hard to improve on perfection -- unless you go out and do it again. Six will challenge the undefeated Kentucky Oaks winner in the Acorn Stakes Good Cheer puts an unblemished 7-for-7 record on the line Friday in the $500,000 Acorn Stakes (G1) for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga. The Acorn is on...
There has never been a “walkover” or a race with a single participant in Belmont Stakes history. There have been five two-horse fields (1887, 1888, 1892, 1910, 1920). Unlike the Kentucky Derby, where it’s a challenge to limit participation to just 20, the Belmont Stakes rarely has a full field...
She Feels Pretty goes for her fourth straight victory as the heavy favorite in the $750,000 New York Stakes while Excellent Truth and Choisya meet again in the $500,000 Just A Game, a pair of Grade 1 events for turf fillies and mares on Friday, Day 3 of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga...
Ogden Phipps (1908-1992) was a world-class mover and shaker, the patriarch of the first family of American Racing. Phipps was a founding member of the New York Racing Association and a longtime chairman of the Jockey Club. He bred and owned nine champions, including Hall of Famers Buckpasser, Pers...
Except for Triple Crown heroes American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018), no horse has won the Preakness Stakes (G1) and the Belmont Stakes (G1) since Afleet Alex did it 20 years ago. If not for a rough trip in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Afleet Alex would have swept the series. The three were extreme...
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 C...
Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism was made the slight 8-5 morning-line favorite over Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Sovereignty for Saturday’s $2 million Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. The much-anticipated Derby/Preakness winner rivalry looms in the Belmont Stakes Whatever the odds...
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