Just because trainer Todd Pletcher wasn't in the Preakness Stakes after running a record-tying five horses in the Kentucky Derby doesn't mean he ran out of 3-year-olds. It seems he was saving up for Saturday's 145th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.
Two standout sprinters on turf are set to battle in race 4 with top pick Sweet Cassiopeia (#1, 9-5) and Good Deed (#3, 8-5); adding Bounding Bi (#5, 8-1) for exotics.
Freedom Child, who skipped the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, has emerged as the horse everyone is talking about during preparations for Saturday's $1 million Belmont Stakes.
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There's no Triple Crown at stake, but drama — and excellent betting opportunities — remains in Saturday's 145th Belmont Stakes at stately Belmont Park. Most of the pre-race focus has riveted on the rubber match between Kentucky Derby winner Orb and Preakness winner Oxbow, along with the record five horses being sent out by trainer Todd
The 145th Belmont Stakes was supposed to be about redemption. Specifically, Kentucky Derby winner Orb making amends for a fourth-place finish in the Preakness Stakes. Well, it was redemption all right. But it was for Dogwood Stable's Palace Malice, ridden by Mike Smith, who Saturday stalked a stern pace to beat gritty Preakness winner Oxbow by 3-1/4 lengths at Belmont Park.
The Breeders' Cup announced Monday that its two-day year-end thoroughbred championship races will be run at Santa Anita Park in Southern California in 2014 for what will be the third consecutive year.
Since Commendable in 2000 became the first horse to win the Belmont without having a race in between after starting in the Kentucky Derby, six more horses have triumphed in the 11/2-mile test after skipping the Preakness, including Palace Malice.
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Bill Mott looking to sweep a pair of stakes again Saturday at Churchill Downs[/URL]
The track’s all-time winningest trainer swept the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic and Classic with Royal Delta and Drosselmeyer on consecutive nights. He came back a year later to take the Grade II Fleur de Lis with Royal Delta and the Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap with Ron the Greek on the same night.
Take Charge Indy's career could have ended after an injury suffered at age 3, but his handlers' faith that a potential brilliant breeding career could wait, has been rewarded with a big turnaround at age 4
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That opportunity comes Saturday in the $500,000-added, Grade I stakes, whose field of six older horses also includes Ron the Greek, Take Charge Indy, Successful Dan, Pool Play and Golden Ticket.
Fit and healthy as ever now at age 7, Successful Dan gets his chance to right a family wrong when he faces an eminent field of five others in Saturday's running of the 11⁄8-mile Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs.
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Take Charge Indy's performance in Churchill Downs' Grade II Alysheba Stakes six weeks ago is exactly the reason that WinStar Farm opted to race him this year after buying the colt's breeding rights.
Ramon Dominguez, winner of the last three Eclipse Awards for outstanding jockey, announced Thursday was retiring from riding because of injuries he sustained during a spill at Aqueduct in January.
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As Wise Dan started what proved a Horse of the Year campaign last year, there were some who thought that America's top horse might be only the second-best in Charlie LoPresti's barn.
Last year's Breeders' Cup Classic champion Fort Larned was not made the morning-line favorite for Saturday's $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs — not because he doesn't have the talent but because his first two starts in 2013 have...
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Mike McCarty's Stage Street took the lead a few jumps out of the gate and never looked back in winning the $52,118 Father's Day feature at Churchill Downs by a length over Titletown Five.
Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, entered his career finale to great fanfare, running in the Queen Anne Stakes on the world stage at Britain's fabled Royal Ascot.
Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, entered his career finale to great fanfare, running in the Queen Anne Stakes on the world stage at Britain's fabled Royal Ascot.
Preakness runner-up Itsmyluckyday, who was pulled up on the backstretch during Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park, is expected to miss four months of training with a slight fracture in his pelvic area.
A beaming Queen Elizabeth II received the Gold Cup trophy on Thursday after becoming the first reigning British monarch in history with a winning horse in Royal Ascot's biggest race.
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