In keeping with a trend in recent years, the stakes schedules for Belmont Park’s spring/summer meet and the Saratoga season are both weighted toward big events. Belmont Park begins its 54-day run on Friday, April 27, and […]
With 2017 coming to an end, it’s time to look back at some of the best performances from the distaff division. All the likely suspects are here, along with what might be a couple of […]
words & photos below by TERESA GENARO Featured photo by Susie Raisher. Race replays courtesy The New York Racing Association editor’s note: I asked Teresa to write about returning to a summer of racing at […]
He narrowly threw the race away in the final hundred yards when ducking out sharply several paths, but Sporting Chance instead clung to victory by a neck over the favored Free Drop Billy in the […]
Terry Hamilton’s Heart to Heart appeared to be the likely controlling speed on paper in Monday’s $250,000 Bernard Baruch (G2), and so it proved a straightforward task for the 2-1 favorite. The Brian Lynch trainee […]
by TERESA GENARO Seventeen years ago, City Zip accomplished the impressive feat of sweeping Saratoga’s major stakes for two-year-olds on dirt, the Sanford, the Saratoga Special, and the Hopeful. Ninety-six years before that, a two-year-old […]
by Teresa Genaro Steve Asmussen has accomplished enough as a trainer to have been inducted into the U.S. Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame. He’s won two Eclipse Awards, more than 7,700 races, over $261 million […]
Gun Runner exited his third straight Grade 1 victory on Saturday in Saratoga’s Woodward Stakes (G1) in great shape, trainer Steven Asmussen said Sunday. Gun Runner dominated the nine-furlong contest, pulling away to an effortless […]
Trainer Linda Rice reported that Voodoo Song was doing well one day after his neck victory over the rallying Yoshida in Saturday’s Saranac Stakes (G3). “He came out of the race well and he looked […]
by TERESA GENARO “My lady prioress, and by your leave, So that I knew I should in no way grieve, I would opine that tell a tale you should, The one that follows next if […]
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