#Belmont Gold Cup

At the age of 92 most of us would be safely tucked up in bed at around 11pm with a big day ahead, but the Queen showed phenomenal staying power on Friday night by staying up late to watch her homebred four-year-old Call To Mind win the Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup Invitational before talking to her racing adviser John Warren on the phone…

One of the big betting races this weekend comes from Gulfstream Park, as the H. Allen Jerkens Handicap is the ninth race on the card. This race is due off at 4:11 p.m ET, and it will see a field of at least 12 runners compete over two miles on the turf. A number of runners are in with a chance this weekend, and more information about some of the…

Novo Sol wins a handicap at Gulfstream Park July 16 (Coglianese) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications TORONTO- The Grade 3 $150000 Valedictory Stakes, set for 1 ½ miles on the Tapeta this Sunday at Woodbine, has attracted 12 starters, including Novo Sol (BRZ). The marathon test, for 3-year-olds and up, will mark the 19th career start for the…

Photo by Josh Chiodo on Unsplash The race that stops a nation takes place at Flemington, Melbourne, on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 The Melbourne Cup is one of the biggest races on the international calendar, as the field competes over 3200 meters While the Kentucky Derby attracts interest from a mainstream audience in the United States, there are few…

Sky Sports Racing ambassador Hollie Doyle discusses her four rides on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2022 on Tuesday, including leading Coventry Stakes contender Bradsell. I have ridden Archie Watson's exciting juvenile Bradsell in all his work and there's no doubt he deserves to take his chance in the Coventry Stakes (3.05) on the opening day of…

New York takes center stage of the racing world this weekend. Belmont Park hosts 14 graded stakes between its Friday and Saturday cards, including nine at the Grade 1 level, culminating in the 2022 Belmont Stakes on Saturday afternoon. Rougir (6-5) is morning-line favorite for the first of those Grade 1 affairs, the $750000 New York Stakes. Post…

The 154 running of the Belmont Stakes will take place Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. While the Triple Crown won't be on the line, Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will be part of the eight-horse field. Post time for the race is set for approximately 6:49 p.m. In last year's edition of the race, favorite Essential Quality came in…

The eyes of the horse racing world will be on Belmont Park the next two days, and while the main event, a gaggle of stakes leading up to the biggie, the last jewel in the Triple Crown, is not until tomorrow, the races today are quite good too. We have plays in four of them, all stakes, and we expect fast dirt and soft turf at Big Sandy today. Let's…

The Belmont Stakes weekend was a highly anticipated 3 days of racing. The stakes races lived up to their billing. The Wonder Again Stakes kicked off the graded stakes action. The race kicked off a big weekend on the grass for Chad Brown. In the race Consumer Spending was able to get the job done earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 88. The winner paid…

Fillies are in the spotlight Thursday on Day 2 of the St Leger Festival at Doncaster. Here are a couple longshots to keep an eye on in the day's two Group offerings. The odds on favorite Dance in the Grass have shortened considerably to around even-money for this juvenile filly event over one mile, and for understandable reasons. She's beaten two…

Modern Games, shown winning the 2021 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, returns to North America for Saturday's Grade I Ricoh Woodbine Mile. Photo by Alex Evers, EclipseSportswire, courtesy of Breeders' Cup Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Racing moves back to Churchill Downs and Aqueduct this weekend, but the main focus is north of the border, where Woodbine stages an…

FRANKLIN - One of Europe's top stables will make its first start at Kentucky Downs as the Joseph O'Brien-trained Stay Lost was set to run in Thursday's seventh race for 2-year-old filly maidens. Three O'Brien horses arrived at Kentucky Downs from Saratoga on Tuesday, heading to the track Wednesday morning for training over the undulating turf…

FRANKLIN, Ky.- One of Europe's top stables will make its first start at Kentucky Downs as the Joseph O'Brien-trained Stay Lost runs in Thursday's seventh race for 2-year-old filly maidens. Three O'Brien horses arrived at Kentucky Downs from Saratoga on Tuesday, heading to the track Wednesday morning for training over the undulating turf course. The…