by Ryan Martin/NYRA|06.06.2023|5:05pm Clairiere, Secret Oath Meet Up Again In Saturday’s Ogden Phipps Three-time Grade 1 winner Clairiere will face last year’s Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath for the third time this season when seeking a repeat conquest of the Grade 1, $500,000 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park. The 55th running of the nine-furlong test for older fillies and mares is a Breeders’ Cup “Win And […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|06.05.2023|3:32pm Ron Turcotte On Secretariat’s Historic 31-Length Belmont Triumph: ‘I Could Hear Them Fading Away’ On June 9, 1973 at Belmont Park, a crowd of 69,138 saw the epitome of athletic greatness on full display in the form of a well-built chestnut thoroughbred named Secretariat, who left his foes with broken hearts and those watching with mouths agape, winning the Belmont Stakes by an unprecedented 31 lengths. Secretariat’s pinnacle moment […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|05.13.202305.13.2023|7:04pm7:09pm Arcangelo Denies Bishops Bay By Head Bob In Peter Pan Thriller Blue Rose Farm’s Arcangelo, with Hall of Famer Javier Castellano aboard, outdueled 9-5 favorite Bishops Bay in deep stretch to capture his stakes debut in Saturday’s 69th running of the $200,000 Peter Pan (G3) at Belmont Park. The nine-furlong test for sophomores is the traditional local prep for the $1.5-million Belmont Stakes (G1), which is […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|05.13.202305.13.2023|2:16pm3:56pm Blazing Sevens ‘Super’ In Final Preakness Breeze Rodeo Creek Racing’s Grade 1 winner Blazing Sevens breezed five furlongs over the Belmont Park main track in his final serious move for the $1.5-million Preakness Stakes (G1) May 20 at Pimlico Race Course. Under mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 70s, Blazing Sevens visited the track following the renovation break around 9:00 […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|05.10.2023|4:02pm ‘He’s A Bit Like A Rockstar’: Veteran Drafted Out For Title Defense In Saturday’s Runhappy Dublin Fjord Stables, Racepoint Stables, Kevin D. Hilbert and Thomas E. O’Keefe’s 9-year-old warhorse Drafted will return off a brief layoff to attempt a repeat score in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Runhappy at Belmont Park. The six-furlong test for older horses will be Drafted’s first start since finishing sixth in the Grade 3 Tom Fool […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|04.23.2023|7:30pm Les Bon Temps Elevated To Victory In NYSS Park Avenue Division There were some anxious moments in the stretch run, but the formful Les Bon Temps was able to let the good times roll to a third career stakes triumph in Sunday’s $200,000 Park Avenue division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a 6 1/2-furlong test for eligible New York-sired sophomore fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack. […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|04.06.2023|5:54pm Friday’s Card At Aqueduct Features $31,585 Pick 6 Carryover Friday’s card at the Aqueduct Racetrack spring meet will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $31,585 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Thursday’s eight-race card. The $1 Pick 6 returned $3,509.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. The sequence kicked off in Race 3, a seven-furlong $40,000 claimer for older fillies […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|04.05.2023|4:55pm Cox, Pletcher Bring Loaded Arsenals For Wood Memorial A field of 13 sophomores have entered for their final shot to earn Kentucky Derby qualifying points in Saturday’s 98th running of the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial presented by Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack. The nine-furlong test is the final local qualifier for the Grade 1, $3 million Kentucky Derby on May 6 […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|04.02.202304.02.2023|7:08pm7:12pm Funny How Looks To Extend Five-Race Win Streak In Aqueduct’s Distaff Adelphi Racing Club and Cutair Racing’s New York-bred Funny How rides a five-race win streak into her graded stakes debut in Friday’s 69th running of the $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3) for older fillies and mares at Aqueduct Racetrack. Funny How, a 4-year-old Overanalyze bay, enters the seven-furlong test off a triumphant stakes debut in the […]
by Ryan Martin/NYRA|03.31.2023|6:02pm Saturday’s Card At Aqueduct Features $25,000 Pick 6 Carryover Saturday’s card at Aqueduct Racetrack will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $25,000.86 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday’s eight-race card. The $1 Pick 6 returned $1,471.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. The sequence kicked off in Race 3 as Manny Franco piloted Curbstone [No. 6, $3.50*] to a […]