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Racing Recap: Home Field

1-5-5-6-1-5-4-8-4-7-1. A win in the Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard in 2024. Five consecutive losses. A win in the Sheppard in 2025. Three straight losses. Jimmy P added his latest 1 to his string of Saratoga 1s with late a lunge to win the Grade 1 Beverly R. Steinman Stakes at Saratoga Wednesday. Owned by Madaket … Read more

Once more, with feeling

Once more, with feeling Saratoga Race Course hosts the Belmont Stakes for the third (and final?) time as construction of the new Belmont Park nears completion. The old place gets a good one as Saturday’s field includes the first, second and fourth horses from the Kentucky Derby five weeks ago at Churchill Downs plus the … Read more

Wednesday’s Saratoga picks – June 3

The third and final installment of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course opens Wednesday with a 10-race card featuring a Grade 1 hurdle stakes and six New York-bred stakes. The New York Showcase Day card starts at 12:35 p.m. with the Grade 1, $150,000 Beverly R. Steinman Hurdle Handicap, which attracted a … Read more

Nominations open for Godolphin industry employee awards

Godolphin Press Release Nominations for the 2026 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards in North America are now open. Celebrating its 11th year, the program will accept nominations through midnight on Monday, July 13. Hallway Feeds has supported the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards through its sponsorship of the Dedication to Breeding Award. CEO Lee Hall commented, “We are both proud and … Read more

TERF hosts Belmont Week fundraiser

Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation will set to hold its third annual Soiree for Safety, Wednesday, June 3, 5-7 p.m., at Adelphi Hotel, 365 Broadway in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. as part of Belmont Stakes Week. All proceeds from this educational and research fundraising event support TERF’s mission of promoting Thoroughbred health, welfare and racing safety. … Read more

Picks & Preview: Fair Hill Races

Fair Hill. Depending on who you talk to, the two words mean many things – a Thoroughbred training center, a 5,800-acre state park, a nature center, mountain biking, the Cecil County Fair (demolition derby, anyone?), an epic winter trail-running race called Phunt, sledding to die (or at least get sent to the emergency room) for, … Read more

The one: Napoleon Solo takes the 151st Preakness

Chad Summers never lost faith or belief in Napoleon Solo. Summers stuck by his decision to eschew the big money and prestige – along with a chance for a championship – in last year’s Breeders’ Cup. He stayed true this winter in South Florida and again back home in New York even while the gray … Read more

Preakness Notebook: Taj Mahal tries to win for locals

The hosts sold 4,800 tickets to this year’s Preakness at Laurel Park, but there might be more people at trainer Anthony Farrior’s backstretch party – Barn 1; bring a donation – if local horse Taj Mahal gets the job done in the $2 million Grade 1 Saturday. Undefeated in three starts over the track, the son … Read more

Preakness Day stakes picks

Maryland’s day in the spotlight, with a twist of course. The Preakness Stakes goes down for the 151st time Saturday, for this edition down the interstate a bit to Laurel Park while the newly imagined Pimlico Race Course undergoes a rebuild.  The day looks very familiar to recent Preakness Days, thanks to a stakes-heavy card … Read more

Picks & Preview: Radnor

You going to the Preakness at Laurel? That sounds a little like going to the beach in Kansas, but this is the world we live in. In case you didn’t get lucky and get tickets – 4,800 is the attendance cap – you can head north to the Philadelphia suburbs for jump racing at the … Read more