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Tom Law 
How’s this for a final act to the drama that is the 2018 Triple Crown? A sweep of the series on the line – possibly for the second time in four years after a drought of nearly four decades – and an absolutely loaded card of stakes that features the Belmont Stakes and five other Grade 1s.
There is no shortage of intelligent people that can give you thorough, insightful analysis of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes from any angle imaginable. You’re not reading one of them. I’m the Haiku Handicapper.
Freelance writer Joe Nevills analyzes the 2018 Belmont Stakes field in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
The Belmont Stakes Festival kicked into gear Thursday with a trio of stakes and continues Friday with a five-pack of stakes to hopefully pad the bankroll for Saturday’s monster main event at Belmont Park.
Less than a week now to see if racing will be blessed with another Triple Crown winner, the second in four years, and a quick recap of the first weekend in June for this week’s edition of The Monday Special.
Welcome to June. Time to rev up for next week’s Belmont Stakes, settle into summer and start to think about Saratoga. Before any of that there’s another loaded day of racing previewed in this week’s edition of The Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud.
Bill Graves leaned against the iron fence that separates the walkway to the racetrack and the winner’s circle at Pimlico, thumbed through his program and peered up every few moments when something caught his eye.
Belmont Preview Bucket: Tune Up
The New York Racing Association’s publicity staff rolls out a comprehensive daily notes package leading up to the Belmont Stakes Festival and we’re pleased to present some of it here in our Belmont Preview Bucket. First up is a report on Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Justify’s half-mile workout Tuesday at Churchill Downs.
Everyone dried out from last weekend’s rain at the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan? Perfect timing with the official start to summer and a big Memorial Day weekend on tap, led by the annual Fair Hill Races, a pair of Grade 1 stakes at Santa Anita Park and a stakes-filled card at Monmouth Park.
Two classics in the books and one to go, and what a finale is in store thanks to Justify winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 14 days’ time.
