Red Carpet Ready versus Chocolate Gelato in Jersey Girl; Brown has trio in Wonder Again
Update: With Belmont Park canceling Thursday due to dangerous air quality, the two scheduled stakes were moved to Sunday. […]
Belmont Park
Kalik lands stakes debut in Pennine Ridge
Kalik, the only horse in Saturday’s $200,000 Pennine Ridge (G2) at Belmont Park with no prior stakes experience, led his six rivals on a merry chase in the nine-furlong grass test for three-year-olds, winning gate-to-wire […]
Pennine Ridge a rebound opportunity for Silver Knott
Several horses expected to run well in England’s first classic of the season, the 2000 Guineas (G1) on May 6, instead turned in poor efforts over a rain-saturated course at Newmarket. Among them was Silver […]
Miss Yearwood earns first stakes win in Keertana; Queen Picasso stays perfect in Soaring Softly
Belmont Park and Churchill Downs featured turf stakes for females on Saturday. Keertana S. Miss Yearwood capitalized upon a hot pace in the $223,678 Keertana at Churchill Downs, rallying to win by a length. The […]
Get to know the 2023 Belmont Stakes contenders
Updated after Tuesday’s draw with post positions and morning line odds: field for the 155th Belmont Stakes on June 10, 2023 […]
Arcangelo edges Bishops Bay in Peter Pan
Promising three-year-olds Arcangelo and Bishops Bay hooked up for an exciting stretch battle in Saturday’s $200,000 Peter Pan (G2) at Belmont Park, and Arcangelo got the better of his rival in the final strides, securing […]
Red Knight earns first Grade 1 at age nine in Man o’ War
The ageless nine-year-old Red Knight earned the first top-level win of his career and became the oldest winner ever of the $600,000 Man o’ War (G1) at Belmont Park on Saturday. Settled at the rear […]
Godolphin aims for third Man o’ War with Warren Point; Bishops Bay stretches out again in Peter Pan
One week after landing the Fort Marcy (G2) with Ottoman Fleet, Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby will look to garner top honors in another Belmont Park feature for older grass runners when they send out […]
Classic Causeway switches to turf, wires Belmont Derby at 26-1
After racing exclusively on dirt, Classic Causeway has found a home on turf, dynamically switching surfaces and leading wire-to-wire in Saturday’s $1 million Belmont Derby (G1). Julien Leparoux hustled the son of Giant’s Causeway to […]
McKulick gives Brown another Belmont Oaks success
Getting the extra distance she’d been craving, McKulick stormed to a 1 3/4-length win Saturday in the $700,000 Belmont Oaks (G1) against an international field going 1 1/4 miles. Rated in midpack by Irad Ortiz […]