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Nine marathon turf horses were entered for Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meet.

Dual Grade 1-winner War Like Goddess vies to defeat males for a second consecutive victory in the Joe Hirsch

Velazquez, a four-time Woodward-winning jockey, will maintain the mount aboard Charge It from post 1.

When Credibility Matters

After 50 years as a graded stakes, all but one of the last forty as a G2 event, the Bernard Baruch Handicap has been downgraded to listed status for its 2023 running. The list of past winners of the mile-and-a-sixteenth race includes such notables as Lure, Steinlen, Furiously, Fourstars Allstar and Wise Dan. The five […]

Hall of Fame trainer James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons had the highest of opinions regarding Gallant Fox, the first of his two Triple Crown winners. “Gallant Fox was the best 3-year-old I ever handled, perhaps the greatest 3-year-old that ever lived,” Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons is regarded by many as the greatest trainer of all time. He […]

Proxy, a son of Tapit, is a six-time winner over four different ovals and enters from a victory in the Grade 3 Monmouth Cup

Sword Dancer (G1) winner Bolshoi Ballet was set to be flown back to Ireland Sunday evening with a return trip for the $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1) on September 30 at Belmont at the Big A under consideration as a springboard to the Breeders’ Cup.

Archangelo's decisive victory in Saturday's Travers Stakes boosted the late bloomer to the top of the 3-year-old division in a weekend filled with top-flight racing,

Bolshoi Ballet, who won his North American debut in the Belmont Derby (G1) more than two years ago, put away favored fellow Irish-bred Stone Age leaving the far turn and drove to a decisive 4 1/2-length triumph in Saturday’s $750,000 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.