Horse Racing

2021 Belmont Undercard Stakes Results Ricardo Santana Jr. celebrates aboard Silver State after winning the Met Mile 2021 Belmont Stakes Undercard Results Date: 06/05/2021 Of the three Triple Crown races, the undercard of the Belmont Stakes has the most prestigious races on its undercard. This year, the COVID-restricted 11,238 fans in attendance at “Big Sandy”

2021 Belmont Stakes Festival Friday Photos 2021 Belmont Stakes Festival Friday Luis Saez celebrates aboard Mean Mary after the New York Stakes (G2) Date: 06/04/2021 The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival runs from Thursday to Saturday, highlighted by the 153rd Belmont Stakes run on Saturday. Friday afternoon’s card included 5 stakes (4 graded), contested under cloudy

With a stellar eight Grade I races on the card including the 153rd Belmont S. presented by NYRA Bets, Belmont Park generated all-sources handle of $112,725,278 Saturday. The amount marks a New York Racing Association (NYRA) record for a non-Triple Crown year, in spite of limited attendance and restrictions on track due to the COVID-19

2021 Monmouth Stakes 2021 Monmouth Stakes Nik Juarez celebrates aboard Devamani after winning the 2021 Monmouth Stakes Date: 06/05/2021 The feature race on Saturday at Monmouth Park was the $156,000 Monmouth Stakes (G3) for older horses going 1 1/8 miles on the turf with the winner earning free entry into the United Nations Stakes (G1)

By Steve Keating (Reuters) -Essential Quality atoned for Kentucky Derby disappointment out-duelling Hot Rod Charlie down the home stretch to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, bringing the curtain down on a tumultuous year for U.S. thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. The favorite to win May’s Kentucky Derby, Essential Quality came home fourth at Churchill Downs

Essential Quality was the favorite for a reason. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) In the shadow of a scandal surrounding one of the biggest names in horse racing, Essential Quality took home the win at the 2021 Belmont Stakes on Saturday. The heavy favorite pulled away late in the race, holding off Hot Rod Charlie

Bolshoi Ballet is the punters choice to give trainer Aidan O’Brien a ninth Epsom Derby and a 41st British classic breaking a record that has stood for almost 150 years later on Saturday. However, it is John Leeper, a horse named after the late two-time Derby winning trainer John Leeper Dunlop and trained by his

1:26 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. is out of the Belmont Stakes after a scary fall while racing but seems to have escaped long-term injury. Ortiz was thrown off a horse during a race Thursday at Belmont Park and then trampled by the horse being ridden by his younger

Let’s go back in time. Before the Kentucky Derby. Before we knew too much about Medina Spirit. Before legendary trainer Bob Baffert was once again in trouble and making little sense trying to talk his way out of controversy on the media circuit. Way back then, Essential Quality was the center of attention. The colt

8:00 AM ET The 153rd Belmont Stakes marks the final leg of the Triple Crown. Essential Quality, who finished fourth as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s race. Post time is 6:49 p.m. ET. Rombauer upset Medina Spirit, winner (for now) of the Kentucky Derby, to take the

The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) and The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) will hold the inaugural T.I.P. Barrel Racing Championships at the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium this October at the Kentucky Horse Park. The annual T.I.P. Championships features competition in disciplines including hunters, jumpers, English pleasure, Western pleasure, and classical and Western dressage.

2021 Belmont Stakes Festival Thursday Photos 2021 Belmont Stakes Festival Thursday Photos Change of Control returns after winning the Intercontinental (G3). Date: 06/03/2021 The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival runs from Thursday to Saturday, highlighted by the 153rd Belmont Stakes run on Saturday, the third leg of the Triple Crown series. After light rain earlier in

Ed Dunlop admits it is “surreal” training a leading contender for Saturday’s Epsom Derby named in honour of his father. Dunlop’s dad, John Leeper Dunlop who died aged 78 in 2018, won the coveted classic twice. The equine John Leeper, whose dam Snow Fairy Ed Dunlop trained to win the Oaks in 2010, faces 11

Analyzing the Top 2021 Belmont Stakes Contenders Belmont Poll Who will win the 2021 Belmont? Analyzing the Belmont Stakes Contenders Date: 06/01/2021 The Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the Triple Crown races, and at 1 1/2 miles on the dirt, is a dinosaur with so few main track events carded at twelve furlongs these

11:11 AM ET ESPN News Services Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is facing disqualification after testing on a second postrace sample confirmed the presence of the the steroid betamethasone, a lawyer who represents the horse’s owner confirmed to the New York Times. Attorney Clark Brewster told the newspaper that a laboratory at UC Davis confirmed

5:51 PM ET Associated Press The chairman of horse racing’s future governing body said the failed drug test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit shows the need for a uniform set of rules and penalties in place of the sport’s current patchwork system. In his first public comments since being appointed chairman of the Horseracing

4:38 PM ET ESPN News Services Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert was suspended for two years by Churchill Downs on Wednesday after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for a steroid in two different postrace drug samples. The suspension begins immediately and lasts through the 2023 Spring Meet at the race track. Attorneys

Trainer Richard Mandella has been fined $500 by the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) for a Class 4 and Penalty Category C methocarbamol positive that turned up in the post-race test of Jolie Olimpica (Brz) (Drosselmeyer) after the MGSW mare ran third in the GIII San Simeon S. at Santa Anita Mar. 13. The stewards’