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After finding La Cara three lengths too good at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, Look Forward returns to Saratoga for the $500,000 Grade I Test Stakes over 1,400m on Saturday, 2 August. Not long after capturing the Haskell Stakes at another NYRA track with Preakness hero Journalism, Michael McCarthy now tries for elite success with …

A field of eight sprinters including some Saratoga specialists hit the Spa on Saturday, July 19 for the $400,000 Grade II Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap over 1,200m. Three of last year’s top four finishers are back in Upstate New York for more. Perhaps the one they all have to beat, however, is 2024 Woody Stephens …

Some familiar fillies face La Cara in the Coaching Club American Oaks of 2025 as she seeks another Grade I at Saratoga Race Course in Upstate New York. Mark Casse’s charge meets five rivals on the Spa track’s dirt in this $500,000 invitational race over 1,800m on Saturday, July 19. Fresh from her Acorn Stakes …

Among six declared for the Diana Stakes of 2025 at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, July 12 are two Belmont Stakes Racing Festival winners from last month. Battling for a big slice of the $500,000 prize purse are Just A Game heroine Dynamic Pricing and New York victor She Feels Pretty. The local Chad Brown …

The $400,000 Grade II Suburban Stakes over 2,000m on Independence Day sees a couple of horses who just missed the show in last year’s Belmont Stakes return to Saratoga 13 months on. Honor Marie and Antiquarian ran fourth and fifth in the final leg of the 2024 Triple Crown, but must improve on that. There’s …

Not content with her 17-length romp in the Wonder Again Stakes during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, Nitrogen switches surfaces to grass as a hot favorite for the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes of 2025 over 1,800m at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, July 5. Mark Casse’s star filly goes up into Grade I company …

The Jeff Siegel picks for the Belmont Stakes 2025 on Saturday at Saratoga see the well-respected handicapper going against the top three in the betting – who were also the first three home in the Kentucky Derby last month.  Instead, Siegel prefers a horse from a proven Belmont Stakes winning barn – in Bob Baffert …

The Eddie Olczyk picks for the Belmont Stakes picks 2025 for the big Saratoga race this Saturday (June 7) have been revealed as the popular former NHL player and now respected TNT handicapper gives his main fancy, plus his best ‘outsider’ to have on your radar.  Eddie Olczyk Picks for Belmont Stakes 2025: “I Think …

Both Chad Brown and Todd Pletcher have three previous wins going in to the Pennine Ridge Stakes of 2025 on Belmont Stakes day, with America’s day at the races again taking place upstate at Saratoga, rather than in New York City. A Grade III contest for three-year-olds over an extended mile on the turf with …