Current Tag: Grade 1
Belmont Stakes Day generates more than $98 million in all-sources handle
POSTED: June 12, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. – Saturday's blockbuster Belmont Stakes Day card, highlighted by Mo Donegal’s thrilling victory in the 154th running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million...
Undefeated Jack Christopher continues ascent in G1 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun
POSTED: June 8, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. - Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun drew a field of six swift sophomores to sprint seven furlongs over...
Flightline, Speaker’s Corner face off in G1 Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap
POSTED: June 7, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. – The long anticipated showdown between two of the nation’s fastest racehorses, Flightline and Speaker’s Corner, will take place in Saturday’s Grade 1,...
Rougir ready to rock G1 New York
POSTED: June 6, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. - After making the competition blush in her stateside debut, Rougir returns in Friday’s featured Grade 1, $750,000 New York, a 10-furlong inner...
8-year-old Drafted looking to add to 2022 revival in Saturday's Mr. Prospector Stakes at Monmouth Park
POSTED: June 3, 2022
OCEANPORT, N.J. – With a pair of Grade 3 victories among his first three starts this year – and a fifth-place finish in the Grade...
Santa Anita Memorial Day, Three Grade 1's
POSTED: May 28, 2022
On this episode of Past the Wire's podcast, Gate to Wire our hosts Michael Vale and Jonathan Stettin take a look at the three Grade 1 stakes...
Irish-Bred Going Global Heads Monday’s Grade I, $400,000 Gamely Stakes
POSTED: May 28, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. —Unbeaten on the Santa Anita turf, Phil D’Amato’s Irish-bred Going Global heads a field of eight fillies and mares three and up going...
Smooth Like Strait Out To Defend Title In Monday’s Grade I, $500,000 Shoemaker Mile
POSTED: May 28, 2022
SHOE MILE IS A BREEDERS’ CUP ‘WIN & YOU’RE IN’ CHALLENGE RACE QUALIFIER ARCADIA, Calif. —With superstar jockey Flavien Prat returning from New York to...
Is the Kentucky Derby a Grade 1 race this year or next?
POSTED: February 24, 2022
Should the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks lose graded stakes status by rule? Did Churchill Downs think through the "Bob Baffert" Kentucky Derby and Kentucky...
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