Strong Start to Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
Both total handle and on-track handle for the first two days of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival increased significantly over 2016's festival, the New York Racing Association announced June 9.
Headlines for Friday, June 9, 2017
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Belmont Stakes Racing Festival Week
Images from the days leading up to the races of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
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Santa Anita Cancels Two More Thursday Cards
With no live racing June 15 and June 22, the track will now run a pair of three-day weeks, beginning June 16 and June 23, in advance of a five-day closing week, which starts June 30.
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Shirreffs Gets Another Shot With Gormley in Belmont
In the days and weeks after Royal Mo's breakdown at Pimlico Race Course, in his last timed workout for the Preakness Stakes (G1), it was difficult for the trainer to power forward, but the other horses in his care deserved his best.
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Surrender Now First Winner For Morning Line
The Lane's End first-year sire and grade 1-winning millionaire Morning Line had his first winner when Surrender Now took a maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies June 9 at Santa Anita Park.
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By the Moon Repeats in Bed o’ Roses
While By the Moon's running style changed a bit, the outcome proved the same as she delivered a second straight victory in the $250,000 Bed o' Roses Invitational Stakes (G3) June 9 at Belmont Park.
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Red Cardinal Invades for Belmont Gold Cup Score
Australian Bloodstock's Red Cardinal (IRE) invaded Belmont Park June 9 and claimed the $400,000 Belmont Gold Cup (G3T) with a strong turn of foot.
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Hawksmoor Makes All the Running in New York Stakes
In case the memo was missed the first time around, let it be known that Hawksmoor (IRE) alone on the lead is not a scenario that ends well for others.
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Roy H Invades Belmont, Takes True North
In three starts this year, Rockingham Ranch's Roy H has done no wrong, and his most recent was his most impressive.
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Looking for Irish War Cry to Bounce Back in Belmont
The Triple Crown trail comes to an end on Long Island Saturday, June 10, with the 149th running of the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (G1) the last of 10 stakes to be run on a marathon 13-race card that gets underway at 11:35 Eastern.
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Belmont Stakes Concludes Parity-Laden Classic Season
What has been an ever-shifting landscape for this year's 3-year-old runners is set to conclude its first-half act June 10 with a wide-open edition of the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (G1).
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Happy River is First Winner for Prospective
Freshman sire and grade 2 winner stands at Ocala Stud. Happy River also was his first starter.
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Conquistador Cielo, Holy Bull Took Flight in Met Mile
Three-year-olds Conquistador Cielo and Holy Bull defeated older horses in their memorable editions of the Metropolitan Handicap (G1).
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Pletcher Aims for Second 2017 Classic Win
After capturing the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) with Always Dreaming, trainer Todd Pletcher will try to close out the Triple Crown season with another classic victory when he sends out Tapwrit and Patch in the Belmont Stakes.
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Into Mischief Colt Tops OBS Under Tack Session
For the second day in a row, one of the fastest workers during the June 9 Ocala Breeders' Sales 2-year-olds and horses in training sale under tack show session came from Jaime Mejia's Thoroughbred Champions Training Center.
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He Hate Me Rallies Late to Score in Tremont Stakes
Maryland-based He Hate Me conquered New York with a late run that carried him to victory in the Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park June 9 against a field of seven other two-year-olds
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Pompa Primed With Met Mile Duo
Rally Cry will be joined in the Met Mile starting gate by his multiple graded stakes winning stablemate Tommy Macho, making his first start since a third-place finish in the Carter (G1) at Aqueduct Racetrack in April.
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NYRA Revises Pick 6 Carryover to $47,812
Calling it a matter of fairness to horseplayers, the New York Racing Association increased its carryover pool for the June 9 Pick 6 after receiving permission from the New York State Gaming Commission early that morning to make the revision.
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Tapit Brother Retired to Stud at O'Sullivan Farms
Aldrin is a winning half brother by Malibu Moon and a $1 million 2-year-old in training purchase.
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Meantime Could Put Silverton Hill on the Map
Silverton Hill's Bonnie and Tommy Hamilton have an impressive cattle and horse farm, but it's an hour outside the heart of the Bluegrass in Springfield, KY, where Belmont hopeful Meantime laid up late last year.
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Trainer Cox, Benner Island on Same Page Into Acorn
Benner Island has a win at the Acorn's one-mile distance in an allowance-optional claimer at Churchill Downs last November, and trainer Brad Cox is confident coming into the Acorn.
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Epicharis Bypasses Training Again at Belmont Park
For the third consecutive day, Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (G1) entrant Epicharis did not go to the track June 9, two days after he received a treatment of phenylbutazone for "lameness" in his right front leg.
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Belmont Stakes News Update for June 9
Claire Novak reports on the status of Belmont Stakes contender Epicharis, who was seen Friday morning by the New York Racing Association's chief examining veterinarian. Also includes footage of Tapwrit, Meantime, Senior Investment, and more!
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Scat Daddy Colt Tops OBS June Pinhook Prospects
The top previously purchased horse in the Ocala Breeders' Sales 2-year-old and horses of all ages sale is a Scat Daddy colt purchased for $260,000 by agent Justin Casse on behalf of a partnership group.
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Solid Strike
Smart Strike’s biomechanical profile reveals he was a natural two-turn individual with as much power as stride, the kind of horse that can get out there and stalk and then keep going until the rest are left behind.
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Belmont Analysis: End of a Long Odd Journey
Here we are at the end of the road--the often unpredictable Belmont Stakes, without the Kentucky Derby or Preakness winner, without the favorite Classic Empire, and with a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the head of the Japanese invader Epicharis.
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EMHF Holds Productive General Assembly in Sweden
Update on European & Mediterranean Horseracing Federation's general assembly.
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Phipps Family Accepts Inaugural Dinny Phipps Award
Ogden Phipps II accepted the first Dinny Phipps Award June 8 at the Belmont Stakes Charity Celebration at the Bryant Park Grill in New York City.
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Twisted Tom Proving His Worth for Biszantz
Unbeaten on dirt since he was transferred to the barn of Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown, Twisted Tom has a chance to become the poster child for outside-the-box thinking in the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1).
