{Sunday, June 27, 2010} O'BRIEN TO RUN FIVE IN RISH DERBY Trainer Aidan O'Brien will saddle five horses as he bids for a fifth straight win and eighth in all in the Classic at the Curragh. O'Brien will run narrow favourite Cape Blanco,

{Friday, June 25, 2010} HANDICAPPING INSIGHTS AFLEET EXPRESS (Afleet Alex) was a very impressive winner of his last start at Belmont Park. He won a first-level allowance race on the main track going seven furlongs, which he covered in

{Thursday, June 24, 2010} Afleet Again likely to train up to Haskell The $1 million Haskell Invitational looks appealing to trainer Butch Reid, following Afleet Again's second-place finish last weekend in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth

{Tuesday, June 22, 2010} Friend or Foe targeting Jim Dandy The $100,000 bonus that goes to the owner of the horse who can sweep the Big Apple Triple series for New York-breds will likely go unpaid this year. The connections of Friend

{Monday, June 21, 2010} Evenings End surprises in Dowd Evenings End pulled off the upset in the $100,500 Bernie Dowd Handicap for New Jersey-breds at Monmouth Park before a Father's Day crowd of 24,262. Except for the Haskell Invitational

{Sunday, June 20, 2010} SATURDAY RECAP Lady Shakespeare flies home In race that played out like a comedic tragedy for Gozzip Girl, Lady Shakespeare rallied from last to win the Grade 2, $142,500 New York Stakes by 2

{Friday, June 18, 2010} BELMONT WEEKEND REPORT Gozzip Girl returns in New York Stakes After watching her lose two Grade 1 stakes as the odds-on choice to end her 3-year-old season, bettors may be leery of jumping

{Thursday, June 17, 2010} THE NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY REPORT Classic runners return in Pegasus Preakness S. (G1) contenders JACKSON BEND (Hear No Evil) and SCHOOLYARD DREAMS (Stephen Got Even) return to competition on

{Wednesday, June 16, 2010} Whitney next up for Blame Al Stall Jr. said going into the Stephen Foster Handicap that he had Blame ready to run "in the 90th percentile." So in light of how Blame raced to an electrifying victory last Saturday

{Sunday, June 13, 2010} SATURDAY RACING RECAP Rachel Rolls In Fleur De Lis Rachel nation is breathing a little easier on the afternoon of June 12 after last year's Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra scored her first

{Friday, June 11, 2010} Foster packed with talent Stephen Foster died broke at age 37 in what has become a great paradox, seeing how he left a treasure of ageless songs behind. The race that Churchill Downs named nearly three decades ago

{Thursday, June 10, 2010} THE WEEKEND AHEAD AT BELMONT UNRIVALED BELLE (Unbridled's Song) can add to her growing legacy with an initial top-level win in Saturday's $250,000 Ogden Phipps H. (G1) at Belmont Park, a 1 1/16-mile test for

{Tuesday, June 08, 2010} ALL THE PRIME PLAYERS AIM FOR TRAVERS Imagine a race with all three Triple Crown race winners -- Super Saver, Lookin At Lucky, and Drosselmeyer. Throw in the second-place finishers from the Kentucky Derby (Ice Box),

{Monday, June 07, 2010} Belmont top three to aim for Travers After celebrating his first Belmont S. (G1) win by having dinner with family and friends, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott was back at work at his Belmont Park barn early Sunday

{Sunday, June 06, 2010} SMITH SNARES ELUSIVE BELMONT At 44 years of age, as retirement looms on the horizon, jockey Mike Smith yesterday finally got the one big race that had eluded him all his illustrious career when he drove Drosselmeyer

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{Thursday, June 03, 2010} BELMONT: NOT YOUR TYPICAL RACETRACK There is a scene in the popular movie "Hoosiers" when the players on the underdog Hickory High School basketball team walk into Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indiana for the first time

{Tuesday, June 01, 2010} Quality Road dominates Met Mile Quality Road hadn't been out in 114 days and had just run six furlongs in 1:08.57 in the heat at Belmont Park. With a quarter-mile left to run in the 117th Metropolitan Handicap,