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 ...

Excitement is building as Saratoga Springs, N.Y. prepares to host the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets for the second consecutive year. The 157 th edition of the “Test of the Champion” will be ...

Racing from Belmont at the Big A and Monmouth Park will air on “America’s Day at the Races” four days this week and weekend, starting Friday, May 23, and ending on Memorial Day, May 26. NYRA’s ...

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 ...

PEDULLA: Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher typically skips the Preakness. What does it say that he has targeted this race for River Thames? FRANCOIS: I think River Thames would have bounced terribly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Godolphin homebred Sovereignty won the 151 st Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on May 3 at Churchill Downs for trainer Bill Mott, 71, while guided to victory by jockey Junior Alvarado in ...

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 ...

Thirty-five years ago, on the morning of the Kentucky Derby, a youthful Ian Wilkes would tell anyone who would listen that Unbridled could not be beat in that afternoon’s run for the roses. Although ...

The American Turf Stakes has drawn a full 14-horse field of 3-year-olds set to run 1 1/16 miles on the grass. Despite the overflow size of this field, the way to attack this race is to narrow it down ...