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.
Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year.
The Belmont Stakes is the final test of the Triple Crown — the third resume booster to edge a horse into the history books. It’s not an easy feat.
Health, history and horses are the three H’s carved into the welcome sign when travelers venturing into New York’s Adirondack Mountains reach Saratoga Springs.
Rain was falling at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday hours before Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan goes for back-to-back Triple Crown victories when he takes on seven other horses in the Preakness Stakes.
We reach the second leg of this year’s Triple Crown as we stay in Baltimore for the Preakness. Here at Bleacher Brothers we will educate you like only we can, and if you did not know, today’s race is a mile and 3/16 around the Pimlico main track. We had nine horses entered, but barring anything unforeseen between now and 7 pm Eastern time, eight horses will run with the scratch of Muth.
Mystik Dan doesn’t need a sloppy track — or “Seinfeld” character Cosmo Kramer’s comedic endorsement — in the Preakness on Saturday because the Kentucky Derby winner has raced and thrived in all kinds of conditions. But after initial favorite Muth was scratched mid-week and with rain in the forecast potentially mucking up the dirt