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It’s June, do you know where your steeplechase season went? The National Steeplechase Association circuit started in mid-April (instead of mid-March) and extends to a third month with Saturday’s stop in Tryon, N.C. for the 74th Tryon Block House Races. The meet has changed locations and management – now calling the Green Creek Racecourse at the Tryon International Equestrian Center home.
Speaking on a racing podcast earlier this week, Phillip Shelton summarized the reason for the formation of the Medallion Racing syndicate: to compete in the game at the highest level and win stakes races.
The main event and the final stop on the 2021 Triple Crown, the 153rd Belmont Stakes anchors a star-studded card Saturday at Belmont Park.
The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicked off Thursday and rolls along Friday with an 11-race card topped by five stakes of just about every variety.
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.
You know it must be a pandemic when the Virginia Gold Cup moves to the last Saturday in May from its traditional first Saturday in May date, but jump racing will take it as spectators will be allowed on site at Great Meadow and a strong lineup fills nine races. If you’re going this year, enjoy. If you’ve never been, put it on your list.
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.
