Will the Belmont Racing Festival finale (Belmont Stakes) be a chalk fest ? We at the Daily Racing Blog are betting it won’t be. The Belmont is usually a very lucrative race. Favorites don’t fare well here. Only three Post Time favorites in the last 15 years have Won the race, and only five favorites have hit the board. Winning the 2002 edition, SAVARA paid a … Continue reading Belmont Picks
Let’s call this years edition of the 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes “ The Big Mystery At Big Sandy.” The final leg of the Triple Crown will be the first (and probably last) time these horses will be asked to race at a 12-furlong distance. It’s difficult to foresee how any of the horses in this 151st edition of the Test of the Champion will handle the distance, … Continue reading Belmont Field
Saturday’s Belmont Stakes has an expected field of 10 with seven of those having last raced in either previous leg of the Triple Crown series. Horses coming from the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes dominate the Belmont. Since the turn of the century, those runners have completed the Exacta the majority of the time, while a few 3-year-olds from the Peter Pan Stakes (G3) … Continue reading Bred For Belmont
Here is a preliminary list of possible starters for the Belmont Stakes on June 8th at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The post-position draw for the Belmont is set for 5:30 p.m. on June 4th. BOURBON WAR Trainer: Mark Hennig Jockey: Mike Smith Last race: 8th in Preakness (May 18 at Pimlico) EVERFAST Trainer: Dale Romans Jockey: Luis Saez Last race: 2nd in Preakness (May 18 … Continue reading Belmont Stakes Sneak Peak
There were three Triple Crowns in the 1930’s. There were four more in the 1940’s. It was still a big deal, but it wasn’t rare. Back then it was one of those things that racing fans didn’t get to see every year but they did expect from time to time. That is, to witness a 3-year-old horse so much the better of his peers that … Continue reading Tremendous Machine
Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is observed annually on November 11th to honor military veterans. Perhaps the most largely unrecognized, and sometimes altogether forgotten veterans are the horses that served alongside the soldiers. Since the domestication of the horse, humans and horses have shared a partnership that has been integral to the thriving of civilizations. Horses were essential in agriculture, transportation, and warfare, not … Continue reading Veterans Day
The Kentucky Derby was nearly four weeks ago, the Preakness Stakes was just last Saturday, most of the horse racing community has moved on. Not Gary West, owner of the infamous, disqualified KD runner MAXIMUM SECURITY. West is offering a $20 million reward to the owners of COUNTRY HOUSE, WAR OF WILL, LONG RANGE TODDY and BODEXPRESS, if any of those horses finish ahead of his MAXIMUM SECURITY the next … Continue reading MAXIMUM Challenge
An already-chaotic Triple Crown season took a surprising turn at the 2019 Preakness Stakes when the No. 9 horse BODEXPRESS went on a joy ride without his Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez. Just two weeks after MAXIMUM SECURITY was disqualified in the 145th Kentucky Derby, WAR OF WILL, the horse most impacted by MAXIMUM SECURITY in the homestretch turn, crossed the wire first at Pimlico to Win the … Continue reading BODEXPRESS Lane
All trainer Mark Casse wanted for his horse- WAR OF WILL, (a casualty of interference in the KENTUCKY DERBY) was a fair shot in the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes. He got all of that, and the Win. Gifted young jockey Tyler Gaffalione capitalized, breaking from the rail and working out a beautiful ground-saving trip en route to a 1 ¼-length Victory over long-shot EVERFAST before … Continue reading WOW, What A Preakness !
The 2019 Kentucky Derby will hereby be known as; The Most Exciting Twenty-Two Minutes In Sports. Regardless of the controversy, the top three finishers in the KD will not be running in the Preakness Stakes. This opens the door for several ‘New Shooters’ who did not compete in the Derby to try to pull off that rare feat of Winning the Preakness Stakes without having run … Continue reading Preakness Picks
