ELMONT, N.Y. -- On the Belmont Park track Saturday evening and in their respective shedrows Sunday morning, trainers Shug McGaughey and Todd Pletcher got fresh reminders as to just how taxing it is for 3-year-old runners to endure in Thoroughbred ...
ELMONT, N.Y. -- The horses were making the turn to the homestretch at Belmont Park, and two had separated. Oxbow had led much of the race and Palace Malice had stalked behind, and now the two horses were even.
Aboard Palace Malice, Mike Smith ...
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Seventeen years ago, Cot Campbell had faith. Faith that the unknown trainer he was taking a chance on would eventually help deliver his Dogwood Stable partnership to Thoroughbred racing's greatest heights.
For the better part of ...
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Through all the tumult of the past five weeks, the final leg of the 2013 Triple Crown season has in some sense come full circle to where things stood on the eve of May 4.
Trainer Todd Pletcher again has compiled a five-horse ...
ELMONT, N.Y. -- For all the prestige that comes with its status as an American classic, the $1 million Belmont Stakes loses some of its edge with the absence of Triple Crown hopes.
Despite having both Kentucky Derby winner Orb and Preakness ...
On the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's Belmont Stakes win, when the colt ran off 31 lengths in front of the field into an unknown realm, we wait in vain for the next Secretariat or Seattle Slew or Affirmed, the Triple Crown still elusive.
No ...