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Forewarned wins last year's edition of the Queens County (NYRA/Coglianese) NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Trainer Uriah St. Lewis' graded stakes-placed Forewarned will attempt to defend his title in the $150000 Queens County, a nine-furlong main track test for 3-year-olds and upward, on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack. "He's doing fantastic and…

WINNIPEG - When Winnipeg was soundly beaten by Columbus, the worst team in the Eastern Conference, on Friday, Rick Bowness assured us things would be different against Anaheim, the worst team in the Western Conference. "We had a bad night," Bowness said. "We'll bounce back." Winnipeg didn't bounce back to start Sunday's game, giving up 15 of the…

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…

Hazelbrook wins the G3 Ontario Fashion Oct. 15 (Michael Burns) Woodbine Press Release TORONTO- Hazelbrook, a 4-year-old daughter of Bayern, goes for another graded stakes crown, this time in Saturday's Grade 2 $175000 Bessarabian Stakes, at Woodbine. The 7-furlong main track feature for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and upward, has drawn nine…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - To have the best chance of beating Jackie's Warrior, you probably want to try him in the Breeders' Cup or at a track not named Saratoga. In non-Breeders' Cup races, the reigning sprint champion has won 11 of 13 starts and was second (by a neck) and third in the other two. At Saratoga, he is a perfect 4-for-4, all in graded…

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…

Older sprinters take the spotlight in the Vosburgh (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday, October 8. The seven-furlong dirt race offers a $250000 purse as well as an expenses-paid berth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint for its winner. The race features a field of five, a combination of experienced and hard-knocking sprinters as well as a couple of four-year-olds…

With only three live racing days left in the 65th season at Assiniboia Downs, the trainer, jockey and owner races have already been decided, but there's still one major stakes race for two-year-olds that nobody can predict, and two major mandatory jackpots that anyone could win. Read this article for free: Already have an account? Log in here " To…