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By Mary Eddy —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Frank Fletcher Racing Operations and Ten Strike Racing’s Almostgone Rocket kept her perfect record intact with an easy victory in Thursday’s Listed $150,000 Jersey Girl, a six-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies, at the Belmont...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview TRINITY, Fla. – The 156th Belmont Stakes will not be “The Test of Champions” this year, it will be just another mile-and-a-quarter race at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Because of the renovation work at Belmont Park the...

156TH Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets Grade I 1&1/4m Dirt $2,000,000 3yo 6:41 PM EDT PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1) Seize the Grey (KY) Jaime A. Torres 126 D. Wayne Lukas 8/1 2) Resilience (KY) Junior Alvarado 126 William I. Mott 10/1 3) Mystik Dan (KY) Brian...

By Tom Luicci —- FAVORED MIA’S CRUSADE SURGES LATE TO WIN BY A NECK IN SATURDAY’S SPRUCE FIR HANDICAP AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – After seven months off, Mia’s Crusade picked up where she left off, proving her gameness and determination with yet another win against...

Saturday, May 18, 2024 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Pimlico Race Course D. Wayne Lukas Jaime Torres Michael Behrens Media Conference SAMANTHA PERRY: We’re going to go ahead and get started. If everybody can just get settled for just a moment. We’ll go ahead and get...

David Joseph Maryland Racing —- Grooms All Bizness; MJC Photo Grooms All Bizness Comeback Winner of Jim McKay Turf Sprint Five-Furlong Dash Marked First Race in Nine Months for New Gelding BALTIMORE – Colts Neck Stables’ Grooms All Bizness, racing for the first time in nine...

David Joseph Maryland Racing —- MJC Photo Seize the Grey Steals the Day for Lukas in 149th Preakness Stakes Longshot Gives 88-Year-Old Trainer Seventh Preakness Win BALTIMORE – MyRacehorse’s Seize the Grey stole the day for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas Saturday at...

David Joseph Maryland Racing —- Gun Song; MJC Photo Gun Song Fires Big in $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) Triumph Fifth Win in Pimlico’s Premiere 3YO Filly Race for Jockey Velazquez Milestone 100th Running Capped Stakes-Filled Day on Preakness Eve BALTIMORE – Her connections...

By David Joseph Maryland Racing —- Smarty Jones; Photos provided by MJC Smarty Jones Captured 2004 Preakness and Public’s Imagination BALTIMORE – The blue-collar horse from the blue-collar track came to Baltimore for the 2004 Preakness Stakes (G1) and obliterated the record...

David Joseph Maryland Racing —- Family Ties Link Maryland’s Shaffer to First Black-Eyed Susan (G2) Winner Great-Grandfather Guy Bedwell Trained 1919 Pimlico Oaks Heroine Milkmaid BALTIMORE – On any given day, Clark Bedwell Shaffer Jr. is easy to pick out at the racetrack....