HORSE RACING NEWS
06/09/2016
Belmont Park Notes 6/9
The dark bay or brown son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin was scheduled to school in the paddock during Thursday's live races, the opener of the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival capped by the 148th running of the 1 ½-mile 'Test of the Champio
06/09/2016
Baffert, Zayats hold Q&A at Belmont
" Walking through the paddock for the first time brought back great memories. It gave me goosebumps. It never gets old. We have a lot of fans out there, and to this day people want to know how he's doing. That horse touched a lot of people. This was like
06/08/2016
Gulfstream Hosts Ultimate Belmont Stakes Watch Party
Gulfstream patrons who are XB Rewards members will have the chance to win Belmont Stakes across-the-board wagers, ranging from $10-$200 (totaling $30-$600). Twelve names will be drawn from a bin at 5 p.m., when winners will spin a wheel to determine the a
06/08/2016
Double Entendre Set for Turf Try in Saturday’s Christmas Past
“Originally, we were going to enter for main-track-only, but I just thought, ‘What the heck, every horse should try turf at some time,’” Walder said. “I thought she ran a great race in the Gulfstream Park Oaks, and if she runs that race on Saturday, grass
06/08/2016
Exaggerator goes from hunter to hunted in G1 Belmont Stakes
The 148th running of the 'Test of the Champion,' at 1 ½ miles the last and longest leg of racing's Triple Crown, puts an exclamation point on the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, a spectacular three-day celebration serving up 19 stakes, 11 of them graded i
06/08/2016
Full field for salty edition of G1 Met Mile
The Met Mile, one of North America's most storied races and a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" qualifier for the Dirt Mile, will be run as a one-turn mile event on the main track as part of the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. The race is one of
06/07/2016
Belmont Park Notes 6/7
The likely favorite for the Belmont, at 1 ½ miles, the last and longest leg of the Triple Crown, Exaggerator went out at 8:45 a.m. following the renovation break and completed the distance in 1:00 4/5 over a fast main track at Belmont Park. "I think the b
06/07/2016
Final contenders arrive for Saturday’s G1 Belmont Stakes
A maiden winner over older horses May 29 at Churchill Downs, Seeking the Soul was joined by fellow 3-year-old Tom's Ready and Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly Forever Unbridled in Barn 6. Tom's Ready is being pointed to the Grade 2, $500,000 Woody Stephen
06/07/2016
Belmont Park Notes 6/6
Gettysburg, a winner of one race in seven starts, figures to supply the pace that was absent in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes before he was declared a starter. Asmussen also trains Creator, a closer, for WinStar. Likely Belmont Stakes favorite Exaggerator
06/05/2016
Belmont Park Notes 6/5
Recent Keeneland maiden winner Kareena is set to make her stakes debut in Friday's $150,000 Jersey Girl for 3-year-old fillies. On Saturday, McLaughlin will have Cavorting in the Grade 1, $1 million Ogden Phipps and is looking at running Frosted and Marki