We head back home to Parx to start off this week here as we will head to the Parx turf course for today’s QPW, as we have an overflow field of 13 horses going a mile and 70 yards in the seventh race on the Parx card. Post time for this race is for 3:26 pm Eastern time.
We stay at Saratoga for the final day of the Belmont Stakes Festival and we will look at the Commentator Stakes which is a race for New York breds going a mile and an eighth on the main track. This race goes off at 3:33 pm ET.
Given a stalking trip under jockey Luis Saez, Dornoch held off Mindframe and favorite Sierra Leone to pull off an upset victory in the 156th Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga, Springs, N.Y. Sent away at
When Luis Saez first rode Dornoch at Saratoga Race Course last summer, he told trainer Danny Gargan, “You have the Derby winner.”
It’s Belmont Stakes Day and though the scenery has changed as well as the distance of the final leg of the 2024 Triple Crown, we should have a great race here to close out this five-week rite of passage where young horses become men.
With all the best racing running up at Saratoga today, we also have our eyes on Bensalem as the unofficial horse of Bleacher Brothers Uncle Ernie will run in a Pennsylvania-bred allowance going 7 furlongs on the main track. Post time for Ernie’s return is for 3:37 pm Eastern time.
Happy Friday and happy Belmont Stakes Eve! We are here for day 2 of the Belmont Stakes Festival at Saratoga, and today we will take a look at the finale of a 12-race card. The Acorn is a mile and an eighth race going a mile and one-eighth on the main track, which is one lap around the main track. Post time for the Acorn is 6:40 pm Eastern time.
Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year.
The 156th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday will not produce a Triple Crown winner. However, it may very well prove decisive in determining which colt will be crowned Champion Three-Year Old for 2024. Part of the reason is