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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 …

The Belmont Stakes undercard on Saturday, June 7 contains a fascinating rematch between Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf second and third May Day Ready and Nitrogen in the Grade II Wonder Again Stakes of 2025. With $300,000 in the prize purse and an extended mile before them, this pair start the graded race action on …

The Bed o’ Roses Stakes in 2025 has a $300,000 total prize purse at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival this year. As part of a fillies and mares only card on Friday, June 6, the 1,400m Grade II contest for older females has in recent years been dominated by a local barn. Chad Brown’s excellent …

Book’em Danno and Nutella Fella both made the show in the Woody Stephens during the Belmont Racing Festival last year, so return to Saratoga for the Grade III True North Stakes of 2025 over 1,300m. These four-year-olds face a competitive $400,000 race for this reduced level after their previous exploits at the Upstate New York …

Michael Trombetta speedster Future Is Now returns to Saratoga looking for a repeat in the Grade II Intercontinental Stakes of 2025 on Thursday, June 5 after winning the $200,000 turf sprint for fillies and mares at the Belmont Racing Festival 12 months ago. Now a five-year-old, the daughter of Great Notion went on to more …

Older fillies and mares run over a mile in the Grade I Just A Game Stakes of 2025 with key form races available to bettors and oddsmakers alike for the $500,000 turf race at Saratoga on Friday, June 6. Keeneland’s Jenny Wiley Stakes is one such event with the first four home in the Commonwealth …

The New York Stakes of 2025 presents opportunities for trainer H. Graham Motion to win this Grade I turf race for fillies and mares once again. Standing in their way at Saratoga on Friday, June 6, however, is strong fancy She Feels Pretty. While the NYRA finishes renovation work at Belmont Park, this contest again …

Belmont Park, home of the Belmont Stakes and set to reopen in 2026 after extensive renovation, will host the 2027 Breeders’ Cup World Championships on 29-30 October of that year. Partly state-funded, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced a $455,000,000 redevelopment of the Elmont, NY track in 2023. That meant the closure of Belmont …

Only victory in the $2,000,000 Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in California stands between Thorpedo Anna and confirmation that she is the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. A flawless campaign when racing against fellow females saw Kenneth McPeek’s superstar land the Kentucky Oaks, Acorn Stakes, Coaching Club American Oaks and Cotillion …

Cogburn broke the track record when coasting to victory in the Grade I Jaipur Stakes during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. He now heads to California as a hot 7-5 Morning Line favorite for the $1,000,000 Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club on Saturday, November 2.  Steve Asmussen’s five-year-old son …