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Having it at Saratoga necessitated shortening the race to 1 1/4 miles from the usual “test of the champion" 1 1/2-mile distance that has been a hallmark of the Belmont for nearly a century. The ...
Dornoch hit it out of the park.. The 17-1 long shot won Saturday's 156th running of the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.. Luis Saez, who was aboard Dornoch ...
The Sanford Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the third week of July at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. A six furlong sprint race, the Grade III event is open to two-year-old horses. Inaugurated in 1913 as the Sanford Memorial Stakes, [1] it was modified to its present name in 1927.
The Test Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to three-year-old fillies and run each summer at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is contested at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt and is an influential race in shaping the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. A Grade I event, it carries a purse of $500,000.
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) is the not-for-profit corporation that operates the three largest thoroughbred horse racing tracks in the state of New York, United States: Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens; Belmont Park in Elmont; and Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs. Racing at NYRA tracks is year-round ...
A 4-year-old filly broke down in the fourth race at Saratoga and was euthanized on Sunday, the second consecutive day a racing death occurred at the track in upstate New York. Ever Summer ...
The first running of the race was contested in 1938. In 2021, NYRA renamed the race in honor of thoroughbred trainer Jonathan E. Sheppard. Inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1990, Sheppard has won the New York Turf Writers Cup fifteen times between 1979 and 2019. Sheppard announced his retirement from the sport in ...
Read more:Seventh horse dies at Saratoga Race Course in less than a month Saturday was supposed to be a celebration of the $1.25-million Travers Stakes, considered the summer Kentucky Derby.