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Belmont Stakes Day. Another star-studded 14-race card – and hopefully drier weather – awaits racing fans and horsemen at Saratoga Race Course for the final jewel of the Triple Crown. Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty meets Preakness winner Journalism, with the talented Baeza also in the mix with five others looking to make racing history. The … Read more

The stars are out Friday. A 14-race card awaits racing fans in Saratoga and around the world for “Belmont Friday.” Kentucky Oaks winner Good Cheer puts her unbeaten record on the line in the Grade 1 Acorn, Raging Sea bids for another Grade 1 in the Ogden Phipps, She Feels Pretty looks to keep rolling … Read more

Saratoga goes Belmont, again. Call it 2.0, a redux or whatever you choose, the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival returned to Saratoga Race Course for its five-day run Wednesday and we covered all the action. The day started with Proven Innocent in the Grade 1 Beverly R. Steinman over jumps and continued through the six stakes … Read more

The five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course kicks into gear Wednesday with the New York Showcase Day card and Grade 1 Beverly R. Steinman Handicap for jumpers. Six flat stakes make up the Showcase Day portion of the card, each worth $200,000 and featuring interesting fields. There’s long and short, turf and … Read more

Michael McCarthy felt some bad déjà vu, letting doubt creep in and thinking that maybe the deck was stacked against Journalism yet again on the second stop on the 2025 Triple Crown. Brendan Walsh thought the opposite and that maybe the third Saturday in May was the day for Gosger. Turns out neither trainer was … Read more

The main event, an historic anniversary and the final curtain in front of the tattered old stand marks the third Saturday in May and the 2025 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. The middle jewel of the Triple Crown goes down for the 150th time and the last in front of the grandstand that This … Read more

And then there was one. The much-anticipated and somehow glad-it’s-over spring steeplechase season culminates with a five-race card at the Radnor Hunt Races Saturday. Run for the 94th time, the third-Saturday-in-May fixture attracted overnight-busting entries over the W. Burling Cocks Memorial Racecourse. Last week, Bernie and Kate Dalton, the most rooted-for couple in the history … Read more

One of the biggest days of the year on the Mid-Atlantic racing calendar – and in America to boot – unfolds Friday with Black-Eyed Susan Day at Pimlico Race Course. A 14-race card is on tap for Friday, including six stakes topped by the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan for 3-year-old fillies and Grade 3 Pimlico … Read more

The week between the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes might be a good chance for racing people to catch their breath. Or inhale and go again. Steeplechasers go to work in Nashville Saturday for the Iroquois Steeplechase at Percy Warner Park. The richest stop on the National Steeplechase Association’s spring circuit puts up $575,000 … Read more

Two-time Eclipse Award winner Tom Law, managing editor of ST Publishing which produces The Saratoga Special and thisishorseracing.com, will receive the Old Hilltop Award for covering Thoroughbred racing with excellence and distinction. Law will be presented with the Old Hilltop Award Thursday, May 15 at the Alibi Breakfast at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. … Read more