Essential Quality, Rombauer highlight accomplished field for Saturday’s 153rd Belmont Stakes

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – A talented group that includes an Eclipse Award winner and an American Classic victor will comprise an eight-horse field for the 153rd running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on Saturday at Belmont Park,...
Posted On 02 Jun 2021
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Santa Anita Stable Notes Monday, May 31, 2021

By Ed Golden —- STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021 VENETIAN HARBOR POSSIBLE FOR MONROVIA ‘MIRACLE HORSE’ CATEMACO BACK BREEZING PRAT AND D’AMATO HOLD SANTA ANITA LEADS PROGENY OF BLUEBLOODS IN TODAY’S FIFTH BALTAS MULLS MONROVIA FOR VENETIAN HARBOR Richard...
Posted On 01 Jun 2021
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Belmont Park Notes – 05/31

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Belmont Park Notes Trainer Brad Cox looks for first American Classic victory with Essential Quality in G1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets Keepmeinmind to skip G1 Belmont Stakes and consider G1 Belmont Derby Got Stormy turning back in distance for...
Posted On 01 Jun 2021
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Handicapping: Memorial Day Graded Stakes at Santa Anita

Bob Hill Tracksideview Feature Columnist SANTA ANITA Race 7 – Shoemaker Mile – G! – 1 mile on turf for 3yos and up Smooth Like Straight (2) has lost by a neck twice and a nose once in his last three races in Grade 1 contests. He has been part of the exacta in eight of his last...
Posted On 30 May 2021
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Memorial Day Picks: Penn Mile G2, Regret G3, Matt Winn G3, Pennine Ridge G2

By Bob Hill, TSV staff writer —- There’s an almost limitless opportunity to play stakes races over the Memorial Day weekend, starting on Friday and ending on Monday. In this article, we offer up picks in four stakes races that will be run in the Eastern Time Zone early in...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Gulfstream: Hall of Famer Prado Returns to Riding After Loss of Father

By David Joseph —- Hall of Famer Prado Returns to Riding After Loss of Father Three Wins Shy of 7,100 Twilight Program Kicks off Memorial Day Weekend Friday Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Nearly a month since his last mount – and after...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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SAFFIE JOSEPH LOOKING FOR A FAST START AT MONMOUTH

By Tom Luicci —- SAFFIE JOSEPH LOOKING FOR A FAST START AT MONMOUTH WITH WINDS OF CHANGE IN SATURDAY’S $100K MR. PROSPECTOR OCEANPORT, N.J. – If things go as well as he hopes over the next few weeks it won’t take trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. long to make his presence felt...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Santa Anita Stakes Previews

By Mike Willman —- UPSTART LAMBEAU HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 TRIPLE BEND STAKES AT SEVEN FURLONGS ARCADIA, Calif. (May 26, 2021)—Fresh off a rousing gate to wire allowance win at one mile, the John Shirreffs-trained Lambeau is well positioned to make his stakes...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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CASSE QUARTET PRIMED FOR TOP EFFORTS ON STEPHEN FOSTER PREVIEW DAY

By Darren Rogers —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Thursday, May 27, 2021) – Trainer Mark Casse’s stakes quartet of Helium, Palazzi, Spanish Loveaffair and Tap It to Win are poised to return to form on Saturday’s Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs. “I think all four of our...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Belmont Park Notes – 05/26

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Belmont Park Notes Rebel’s Romance works in company for G1 Belmont Stakes Rombauer to work Friday morning with John Velazquez up Multiple G1-winner Vequist to return to action late summer; Half-sister to Vequist nominated to Astoria Victim of Love to...
Posted On 27 May 2021
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