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One of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival’s most impressive winners in Baby Yoda returns to Saratoga for the Grade I Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap at the Spa on Saturday, July 27. NYRA handicappers haven’t given the True North Stakes scorer topweight for the $350,000 contest, however. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott saddled last year’s …

Impressive Acorn Stakes heroine Thorpedo Anna returns to Saratoga on Saturday, July 20 for the Grade I Coaching Club American Oaks. The Kenneth McPeek barn’s star filly is a hot favorite for the $500,000 feature contest in Upstate New York. Just four three-year-olds dare tackle Thorpedo Anna in her bid four a fourth consecutive victory …

Crupi and last year’s winner Next are the headline acts in the Grade II Brooklyn Stakes on Friday, July 5. Usually part of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, this edition of the $200,000 invitational contest switches to a temporary slot at Aqueduct. This is under the Belmont At The Big Apple banner while renovation at …

Before 2024, the 2km Grade II Suburban Stakes was a regular fixture in America’s horse racing program in July. Now celebrating its 140th anniversary, this former handicap is part of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival meet. That means not only a change of spot in the annual calendar, but a temporary track switch too. With …

Bill Mott had to wait 25 years for his fourth winner in the True North Stakes, but Elite Power obliged in 2023. With that sprinting star retired to stud by owner-breeders Juddmonte, the barn has Baby Yoda heading for Saratoga where the Grade II dirt contest takes place this year. Hall of Fame handler Mott …

  The Jeff Siegel picks for the Belmont Stakes 2024 this Saturday at Saratoga see the well-respected handicapper highlight TWO ‘must use’ horses to put in your exacta bets. Read on below as Siegel showcases his idea of the Belmont winner, which this year is being staged at Saratoga Race Course. He also gives out …

As we race towards the final Triple Crown contest of the season, many US horse racing fans will be keen to know who are the Belmont Stakes favorites this year and what is the recent record like of the market leaders in the Test of the Champion? Sierra Leone One Of The Belmont Stakes Favorites …

Horse racing fans will see the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2024 and 2025 due to the ongoing renovation of Belmont Park, which led the NYRA to switch the last leg of the US Triple Crown upstate to Saratoga Springs from New York City.  This means anyone looking for Belmont Stakes tickets must …

Last year’s New York Stakes second and third, Didia and McKulick, meet again in the $750,000 Grade I race seeking victory. Moved temporarily away from its traditional home of Belmont Park, like the rest of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, there’s a slight shortening of the event distance. Normally contested over 2,000m (10 furlongs or …

The concept of farming a race isn’t lost on Chad Brown who has a record six wins in the Grade I Just A Game Stakes over the last seven years. This mile turf contest for fillies and mares is a key part of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival with the entire meet moving upstate to …