The culmination of horse racing’s Triple Crown will have a unique feel once again in 2025, as the 157 th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets is set to run at Saratoga Race Course on June 7. The $2 ...

Excitement is building as Saratoga Springs, N.Y. prepares to host the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets for the second consecutive year.. The 157 th edition of the “Test of the Champion” will be ...

Racing from Belmont at the Big A and Monmouth Park will air on “America’s Day at the Races” four days this week and weekend, starting Friday, May 23, and ending on Memorial Day, May 26. NYRA’s ...

Wow, did Teddy Spaghetti have a great day today! I had consciously decided to not dedicate this month’s blog solely to his first horse show – but as I am sitting down to write this after just getting ...

The $2 million, Grade 1 Preakness held at 1 3/16 miles on dirt stands as the second leg of U.S. horse racing’s Triple Crown for 3-year-olds, following the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve ...

Yet for the connections of WinStar Farm, CHC Inc., Pantofel Stable, and Wachtel Stable’s River Thames, it wasn’t a thorny choice to keep him in his stall on the first Saturday in May and point to the ...

Now, organizers are focused on the future and what built the Preakness in the first place: racing, local flavor, and community pride. While there’s still some apprehension about what comes next, ...

Origin Story. Gov. Oden Bowie had such a good time at an 1868 dinner party given by Milton Sanford that he decided to commemorate the occasion with the promise to build a racetrack for a stakes named ...

Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association () Top Thoroughbred Poll.Week 15 of the 2025 NTRA ...

Enter Sandman in the Preakness? Yes, indeed. In a post on X on Saturday, May 10, the Preakness Stakes announced that Arkansas Derby winner and Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve ...

Two Derbys later, after achieving a second win with Street Sense in 2007, the duo is back at racing’s biggest stage — this time with Wilkes at the barn’s helm as trainer — with Burnham Square for the ...

Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association () Top Thoroughbred Poll.Week 13 of the 2025 NTRA ...