{Tuesday, June 30, 2009} Zenyatta, 'Rachel' Duel Unlikely Before BC Jerry Moss, who owns champion mare Zenyatta with his wife, Ann, said June 29 that it is unlikely he would ship his undefeated 5-year-old east for a date with 3-year-old

{Monday, June 29, 2009} Rachel Alexandra settles in at Saratoga Scarcely 12 hours after her record-setting victory in Saturday's Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park, RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) stepped onto a van that carried

{Sunday, June 28, 2009} Rachel breaks records in Mother Goose
Borel Triumphs In Return To The Scene of the Crime ELMONT, N.Y. - As trainer Steve Asmussen walked into the Belmont Park saddling area, several yards

{Saturday, June 27, 2009} BOREL RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME THREE weeks after the Belmont Stakes, jockey Calvin Borel is returning to the scene of the "crime" -- or what critics dubbed his botched ride that led to the defeat of Mine

{Friday, June 26, 2009} THE BEST HORSES FROM A TO Z Zenyatta is the one who sparked the idea for this list. An Eclipse Award winner, Zenyatta is 10 for 10. She has been assigned 129 pounds for this Saturday’s Grade I Vanity Handicap

{Thursday, June 25, 2009} Rachel Alexandra to face four in Mother Goose Only four fillies were entered against star filly RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) in Saturday's $300,000 Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park, and one of those

{Tuesday, June 23, 2009} Short field for Mother Goose ELMONT, N.Y. - It appears as though there will be only three challengers for Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra in Saturday's Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park. Justwhistledixie

{Monday, June 22, 2009} Leopard pounces in Queen's Plate Living up to his royal pedigree, Sam-Son Farms' homebred EYE OF THE LEOPARD (A.P. Indy) stayed on strongly in deep stretch to capture Sunday's 150th Queen's Plate S. in a three-way

{Thursday, June 18, 2009} Plans set for Rachel's comeback at Belmont ELMONT, N.Y. - Rachel Alexandra will kick off the second half of her 3-year-old season by returning to face her own gender in the Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes

{Monday, June 15, 2009} Resist temptation to tinker with Triple Crown NEW YORK - It is becoming a rite of the last days of spring. Another Derby, Preakness, and Belmont go by without a Triple Crown winner, and the critics who drop

{Sunday, June 14, 2009} Track Record Of Horse Injuries Goes Beyond Surface THREE days after the Belmont Stakes wrapped up a Triple Crown -- spectacular for its shocks, charm, TV interest and safety -- the penny dropped. Dunkirk --

{Friday, June 12, 2009} STAKES PREVIEWS FROM BELMONT & HOLLYWOOD Kip Deville goes for Poker repeat Multiple Grade 1 winner KIP DEVILLE (Kipling) recorded an emphatic 2 3/4-length victory as the odds-on choice in last

{Thursday, June 11, 2009} Garrett Gomez Reflects On The Belmont I'm back in California, happy as a clam. New York is fun to visit, but when I'm there most of the time it's just me by myself and the only thing that keeps me halfway sane

{Wednesday, June 10, 2009} Surgery on Dunkirk for Condylar Fracture Dunkirk, who ran a gutsy, front-running second in the June 6 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), came out of the race with a non-displaced condylar fracture of the left hind cannon bone

{Tuesday, June 09, 2009} Quality Road Back To Work ELMONT, N.Y. - Jimmy Jerkens won't dwell on what might have been, but he is certainly looking forward to the second half of the year to see what might be. Jerkens is the trainer of Quality

{Monday, June 08, 2009} Belmont top four doing well Sunday ELMONT, N.Y. - The first four finishers from Saturday's 141st Belmont Stakes all came out of the race well, all will get a bit of a breather before returning later this summer,

{Sunday, June 07, 2009} TWO FURLONGS BETWEEN CHAMP & CHUMP WE'VE said here once, we've said it 20 times, and we'll say it again today: The last two furlongs of the Belmont Stakes are a killer. They have destroyed the hopes of so many

{Friday, June 05, 2009} Don't Sell Longshots Short THE biggest racing event of the year in New York, the Belmont Stakes, will be run tomorrow for the 141st time, the oldest and longest classic of the American turf It's always history,

{Thursday, June 04, 2009} Charitable Man Is The Experts' Choice IF YOU listen to experienced horsemen on the backstretch, Saturday's Belmont Stakes will be a one-horse rout: Charitable Man first, the rest nowhere. The unanimity among them

{Tuesday, June 02, 2009} Borel: 'We're going to win it' BELMONT, N.Y. - The faint, then dashed, hope of a Belmont Stakes rematch between Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra has been replaced by the reality of a compelling matchup between

{Monday, June 01, 2009} PLETCHER HOPING FOR TURNAROUND DUNKIRK, dubbed here as the Derby Dilemma horse because no one knew what to expect of him in the Kentucky Derby, is back to confuse the customers again in Saturday's Belmont Stakes.