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The culmination of horse racing’s Triple Crown will have a unique feel once again in 2025, as the 157 th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets is set to run at Saratoga Race Course on June 7. The $2 ...
Wow, did Teddy Spaghetti have a great day today! I had consciously decided to not dedicate this month’s blog solely to his first horse show – but as I am sitting down to write this after just getting ...
The $2 million, Grade 1 Preakness held at 1 3/16 miles on dirt stands as the second leg of U.S. horse racing’s Triple Crown for 3-year-olds, following the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve ...
Yet for the connections of WinStar Farm, CHC Inc., Pantofel Stable, and Wachtel Stable’s River Thames, it wasn’t a thorny choice to keep him in his stall on the first Saturday in May and point to the ...
More recently, on May 9, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore greenlit demolition plans and the training center deal. “Today we take another step toward a new, reimagined Pimlico,” Moore said. “Together, we will ...
Origin Story Gov. Oden Bowie had such a good time at an 1868 dinner party given by Milton Sanford that he decided to commemorate the occasion with the promise to build a racetrack for a stakes named ...
As Lang told Steve Haskin in 2003, “When I went to work for Pimlico in 1960, the Preakness was dying. There had been no Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948, and the Preakness had become just a ...
All appears well at trainer Bill Mott’s Churchill Downs barn after Sovereignty’s victory in the $5 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on May 3. As Mott and the Godolphin team ponder ...
The Hall of Fame trainer along with Godolphin USA director of bloodstock Michael Banahan were noncommittal about whether Sovereignty would race in the second leg of the Triple Crown, the May 17 ...
Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association () Top Thoroughbred Poll.Week 13 of the 2025 NTRA ...
One colt that could potentially leapfrog over Journalism and post the upset is Luxor Cafe.He’s run six times to date, all in Japan, winning four in a row, just as Journalism has. Although he’s only ...
Ethan West, 32, didn’t expect to find himself in the position of saddling a Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve starter so early in his training career, which launched in 2018. Yet, here he ...