The New York Racing Association has announced post times for the five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which will be held at historic Saratoga Race Course from Wednesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 8. Highlighted by the 157th edition of the Grade 1, $2 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on Saturday, June 7, the…
BloodHorse secured three honors from American Horse Publications in its 2025 Equine Media Awards. In a May 22 release, AHP announced that Bloodhorse.com received a Second Honor in the category of equine-related website while BloodHorse Magazine was first runner-up in the category of general excellence for a print publication in its circulation category. The website…
The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association announced May 23 that the 40th anniversary edition of the TOBA National Awards Dinner will be Saturday, Sept. 6, at Fasig-Tipton in Lexington. FanDuel’s Scott Hazelton will serve as host, and the evening will include a special live Bluegrass music concert. The National Awards Dinner honors owners and breeders…
The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation will host its annual Fashionable Fillies Luncheon in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at Saratoga National Golf Club on Monday, August 4, 2025. This year’s keynote speaker and honoree is Lindsay Czarniak. Czarniak is a highly experienced media personality who has been working in sports journalism for more than two decades….
Italian native Umberto Rispoli won his first American classic, May 17, guiding Journalism to victory in a roughly contested Preakness Stakes (G1), the second jewel in the Triple Crown, and was named Jockey of the Week by the Jockeys’ Guild for May 12 through May 18. The weekly honor, determined by votes, recognizes jockeys for significant riding…
By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_Keelerman Every year, California hosts a trio of major 1 1/4-mile dirt races: the Santa Anita H. (G1), the Hollywood Gold Cup (G2), and the Pacific Classic (G1). They’re hard races to win, but trainer John Sadler makes the task look easy. Sadler’s recent record…
It was just last year that a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner met in the Belmont Stakes (G1), a matchup pitting Mystik Dan vs. Seize the Grey . But a battle between the two never materialized, with Derby winner Mystik Dan finishing eighth and Preakness victor Seize the Grey seventh. In a little…
In the days leading up to the May 20 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, the question on the minds of many people involved in the auction was how changes to the under tack show—timed breezes were eliminated at the “gallop only” May 18 session—would impact what happens in the sales ring? Naturally, there was…
Rey Santino Diez’s 4-year-old Frateli La Vita is set to defend his title against 13 foes in the May 25 1 1/4-mile Gran Premio Club Hipico Falabella (G1T) at Club Hipico de Santiago. The winner will earn an automatic starting position and fees paid into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) through the Breeders’…
Trainer Marcus Vitali, inactive running horses in New York after being suspended by the New York Racing Association in 2021 and reaching a confidential settlement agreement with NYRA in 2022, has entered Crossed Sabres Farm’s Classy Lass in the fifth race at Aqueduct Racetrack May 23. “Marcus Vitali has satisfied the terms of the NYRA settlement agreement…
