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Bella Sofia will make her anticipated 4-year-old debut in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Vagrancy sprinting 6 1/2 furlongs at Belmont Park

The New York Racing Association Inc. will host a special all graded-stakes Cross Country Pick 5 from Belmont Park on Saturday.

Grade 1 winner Bella Sofia, who closed 2021 with a fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), returned to the work tab Sunday for the first time this year going three-eighths of a mile in :37.01 on Belmont Park’s dirt training track. Trevor McCarthy was aboard.

Racing in New York never ends, an eternal loop of horses running in circles around Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga.

By Richard Rosenblatt Congratulations Knicks Go, you’re the Horse of the Year, and you did it by leading from start to finish, as usual. Zipping to the lead on…

A handicapping breakdown of all 9 Breeders Cup races on Saturday, with picks and longshots to bet on.

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares his selections for all 14 races at the 2021 Breeders' Cup.

By Noel Michaels Fillies and mares take center stage in two races leading up to the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) on Saturday – in the $2 million Distaff and in…

By Richard Rosenblatt Two Breeders’ Cup winners are in, so is a Kentucky Derby winner, and so are four other Grade 1 winners in a star-studded field for the $6…

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A $1 million race, and the perhaps aptly named State of Rest "was not really paying attention." Fortunately his jockey was…