Drake's Passage Favored in 10-Horse Empire Classic
Eight stakes are part of Empire Showcase Day featuring New York-breds on Oct. 29, the closing day of the Belmont of the Big A meet, anchored by the $250,000 Empire Classic Stakes.
Eight stakes are part of Empire Showcase Day featuring New York-breds on Oct. 29, the closing day of the Belmont of the Big A meet, anchored by the $250,000 Empire Classic Stakes.
Pioneering Spirit seems more effective racing over firm turf courses than wet ones, but he had no issue with sloppy main track Oct. 20 in the $112,500 Knickerbocker Stakes during the Belmont at the Big A meet.
The 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares 3 and up at Belmont at the Big A is being moved to Oct. 27.
Pioneering Spirit faces seven rivals in the Oct. 20 Knickerbocker Stakes (G3T) during Belmont at the Big A meet, but his greatest adversary could be Mother Nature.
Maggie Wolfendale & Sara Elbadwi look back at the Grade 2 Sands Point and the Floral Park from Belmont at the Big A.
Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Grade 2 Sands Point and the Floral Park from Belmont at the Big A.
A New York court dismissed a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs aligned with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that sought to block the disbursement and receipt of New York state funds for the reconstruction of Belmont Park.
Arcangelo, winner of the Belmont Stakes (G1) and the Travers Stakes (G1), has finished first in the final poll of the 2023 Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings, a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention for the Breeders'…
In her first stakes start against older fillies and mares, 3-year-old Randomized proved up to the task as she led every step of the Beldame Stakes (G2) Oct. 8 at the Belmont at the Big A meeting.
With the $150,000 Noble Damsel field whittled down to Gerrymander and Sunset Louise, the one-mile off-the-turf test went off Oct. 8 at Belmont at the Big A to little fanfare, with the Gerrymander winning by a margin of 25 lengths.