Weekend Lineup

Opening weekend at Saratoga offers a graded stakes triple on Saturday, with a five-horse field entered in the featured Grade 1 Diana for older fillies and mares on the turf. Chad Brown trains four of the five, including defending titlist In Italian. The G3 Kelso and G3 Sanford are the supporting races on Saturday’s card, […]

A pair of Grade 1 turf contests for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park take center stage on the United States racing calendar this weekend: the Belmont Oaks and Belmont Derby Invitational. The two Grade 1s are part of four graded stakes scheduled for the penultimate day of racing at the Belmont Park spring/summer meet on Saturday. […]

The holiday weekend kicks off with a hefty pile of graded stakes races on a solid Saturday of racing, including good cards from both Ellis Park and Woodbine Racetrack. Following the shift of the remainder of Churchill Downs’ Sprint Meet to Ellis Park, the Henderson, Ky. track will host its first Grade 1 race this […]

The final day of the highly-anticipated five-day Royal Ascot meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, highlighting this weekend’s racing calendar. A truly international field will line up for the day’s feature race, the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, led by Hong Kong’s top sprinter Wellington. Stateside, the weekend’s top event is likely the […]

This Saturday’s Haskell Preview Day at Monmouth Park features four stakes races, including three graded and two on the turf. Louisiana Derby winner Kingsbarns and recent Long Branch Stakes winner Howgreatisnate head a field of eight 3-year-olds for the Pegasus Stakes, a prep for the Haskell, while multiple Grade 1-winner Tribhuvan headlines the Grade 3 […]

Following significant improvement in air quality conditions throughout New York State, live racing will resume at Belmont Park Friday. The 11-race card, highlighted by five graded stakes, raises the curtain on the 2023 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival after poor air quality forced the cancelation of Thursday’s twilight racing program and the closure of Belmont and […]

Five Grade 2 races highlight the stateside racing action this weekend, three of which will be run on the turf. Kicking things off on Friday is the G2 Penn Mile, with the third meeting between sophomore turf stars Major Dude and Candidate likely to produce a thrilling finish in Pennsylvania. Famed race announcer Larry Collmus, […]

Mage will be the only Kentucky Derby runner to contest the second jewel of the 2023 Triple Crown. Following the scratch of second choice First Mission on Friday morning, the favorite faces a small field of six new shooters in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico. Of those six, the top betting […]