Tom Law

Godolphin’s homebred champion Essential Quality looks to bounce back from his first defeat and Rombauer looks to do what hasn’t been done since 2005 in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.

Paper, cotton, leather…gold at 50. And on your 51st anniversary? How about three wins by your New York stallion, including one by a filly you bred and co-own in her stakes debut, on Big Apple Showcase Day Monday at Belmont Park. Yeah, that’s how Joe and Anne McMahon celebrated their 51st anniversary on Memorial Day 2021. Dinner at Mama Riso’s in Lake George topped it off.

One of the most anticipated days of the year on the NYRA circuit unfolds Monday with the annual Big Apple Showcase card featuring six stakes and 10 races total for New York-breds.

Memorial Day Weekend starts in earnest – unless you’re already underway thanks to our great teacher friends with unused snow days – Saturday with top shelf racing from coast to coast.

Six days after winning the $100,000 The Very One Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Black-Eyed Susan Day, Caravel watches over the shedrow at Lizzie Merryman’s Fair Hill Training Center barn.

Two-thirds of the Triple Crown in the books, Memorial Day right around the corner and the country starting to reopen in full force sets the stage for a relatively light slate of racing here on the fourth Saturday in May.

The Preakness Stakes returned to its traditional spot on the calendar – the third Saturday in May – and delivered a feel-good story amidst a dark cloud hanging over the result of the Kentucky Derby two weeks before.

Michael McCarthy greeted friends and colleagues walking from the owners’ boxes down the steps and onto the track Pimlico Race Course and summed up Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes with a question.

The Bankroll Challenge returns for Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes and its strong supporting card at Pimlico Race Course.

The Preakness Stakes returns to its rightful spot on the calendar – the third Saturday in May as opposed to the first in October last year – for the 146th running that figures to be one for the history books this week at Pimlico Race Course.