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The Rascal, the Wit and the Master: How Jerome, Travers and Belmont organized the Belmont Stakes

POSTED: June 4, 2022

by Kate Richards It was April 1866 in New York City. Three men gathered in Leonard Jerome’s Wall Street office to discuss sport and horses,...

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Rich Strike is in the Big Apple for the Big Sandy

POSTED: June 1, 2022

ELMONT, N.Y. – Rich Strike, the 80-1 upset winner of the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby, arrived in New York at 1 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday to...

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Above The Curve delivers Group 1 Prix St Alary for Joseph O’Brien

POSTED: May 30, 2022

Both Group 1 races at ParisLongchamp on Sunday went for export – one to Ireland, the other to England. Joseph O’Brien won the St Marks...

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Samantha Dobles Saddles 1st Winner at Gulfstream

POSTED: May 29, 2022

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Samantha Dobles celebrated her first success as a trainer after saddling Military Drill for the narrowest of victories in Race 5 on Saturday’s program...

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A farrier named Mike Stine

POSTED: May 28, 2022

by Kate Richards Mike Stine’s office geography is the underbelly of a thousand-pound horse. Whether tending to an eventing, dressage or jumping competitor or a...

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Jockey Angel A. Rodriguez Looking To Build Off Fast Start 

POSTED: May 28, 2022

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Even though jockey Angel A. Rodriguez had bounced around a half-dozen racetracks with moderate success since arriving in the United States from...

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10 THINGS ABOUT THE BELMONT STAKES (that maybe you didn’t know)

POSTED: May 26, 2022

Everything you could ever want to know about The Belmont Stakes, The Test of Champions By Kate Richards 1. THE BEGINNINGS The Belmont Stakes was...

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Chantal Sutherland: ‘I’m Living My Dream Again’

POSTED: May 26, 2022

Mounts Promising for Saturday’s Big Drama, Sunny Isles HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Fresh off notching her 23rd graded-stakes victory aboard Lightening Larry in last Saturday’s Chick Lang (G3)...

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The best pre race analysis you'll ever read

POSTED: May 26, 2022

Our own Jonathan Stettin read this race so good, so spot on people commented all over social media it was like it was written after...

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