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The Special’s first edition of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival makes it to newsstands and paper racks – and web pages and mailboxes too – despite the usual first-day gremlins. We preview Thursday’s stakes-filled card, cover the New York Showcase Day and an oddball steeplechase stakes won by the Saratoga-loving Jimmy P. Plus columns from … Read more
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
