The Grade 1, $500,000 dollar Metropolitan Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday is an excellent race featuring a group of quality sprinters and routers competing in a one-turn mile. Eight entries are set to run, and it is not as easy as it appears to handicap this years edition. The Met Mile is Race 9 on a card of 11, with a scheduled Post Time … Continue reading The Winner Of The Met Mile Is…
Saturday brings another great day of racing to Belmont Park, with the feature race being the Metropolitan Handicap. The Challenge Series Win and You’re In qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile has attracted a stellar field, including CODE OF HONOR, McKINZIE, and VEKOMA. Here are Lucky 7, fun facts about the Met Mile. 1. The race was first run in 1891, making this year … Continue reading The Metropolitan Mile
Older male, dirt horses take the stage in the 1 1/8-mile, $500,000 dollar Grade 2 Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday. In addition to the purse money, the Winner will receive a Win and You’re In spot for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on November 7th. Here then is a full-field analysis of the Stephen Foster, which is slated as Race 10 … Continue reading Who Wins The Foster?
Welcome to Bizarro World, Saratoga edition. The Travers Stakes will truly live up to its nickname of The Midsummer Derby this year. As part of a revamped Saratoga Race Course schedule, the 1 1/4-mile Travers has been moved up three weeks to August 8th. With a million dollar purse the race remains the centerpiece of a 71-stakes race schedule worth $14.45 million dollars for the 40-day … Continue reading Saratoga Stakes Schedule
The 2020 Belmont Stakes is history, and TIZ THE LAW twas, as advertised, much the best in that race. One leg of the askew Triple Crown down, two to go. So let us move on. Churchill Downs has a wonderful day of racing this Saturday, highlighted by the $500,000 dollar Stephen Foster Stakes, a race that has always attracted some of the best older horses, … Continue reading The Stephen Foster Stakes
The newly minted Triple Crown season will finally kick off on Saturday at Belmont Park, with the $1 million dollar Belmont Stakes. It’s time for the old-schoolers to set aside the discussion about the new distance and the altered sequence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and start handicapping. For the first time in history, the Belmont Stakes kicks off the Triple Crown series, and it … Continue reading The Belmont Stakes
In this, the most unique of racing seasons, the Belmont Stakes — traditionally the last and longest of the three Triple Crown races for 3-year-olds — will for the first time ever, lead-off the classic season while running at the shortest distance of the three jewels. A field of 10 was entered in the Belmont, which this year has been shortened to 1 1/8-miles from … Continue reading Belmont Stakes Line Up
It’s Belmont Stakes Week. Odd as it seems, with a new distance and a new place on the calendar, this year’s Belmont Stakes is unlike any other. A compact field of nine is expected for the historic race. So to begin the week the Daily Racing Blog offers you some tasty tidbits, and helpful, historical, hints regarding the Belmont Stakes. 1. This year is the … Continue reading Belmont Stakes Week
The Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) will be run on Saturday at a 1 1/16-mile distance. Which at Belmont Park is around one turn. As well as the purse of $300,000 dollars, the Phipps is the season’s first Win and You’re In qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on November 7th. Although the field is without the Older Female division superstars MIDNIGHT BISOU and … Continue reading The Ogden Phipps @ Belmont
As the founder of the Daily Racing Blog I remember it like it was yesterday. Though it was a long, long time ago. I was 16-17 and I was at the Saratoga Race Course with my Uncle Louie. And while I had been to this fabled course as a wee lad on a few occasions, I had never been given a race program. My Uncle … Continue reading Learning Curve
