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Tag: Belmont Park

Picks and Ponderings: Belmont Stakes Preview

It’s almost here — my favourite race of the Triple Crown, the Test of the Champion, the Belmont Stakes.  Over … More

Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes, Exaggerator

2016 Belmont Gold Cup Preview

It’s that time of the year again — the Belmont Gold Cup.  This year marks the third running of Belmont’s … More

Belmont Gold Cup, Belmont Park

Belmont chat with Dane and Ben

Set your clocks: Thursday morning at 9:05am CDT, I will be back on Sports Town Chicago to talk Belmont Stakes … More

Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes, on the radio

Picks and Ponderings: 2016 New York Stakes Preview

The biggest weekend of Belmont Park’s year is nigh.  Friday’s stakes are drawn — and one of them, the New … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Picks and Ponderings: 2016 Pennine Ridge Stakes Preview

Summer means turf racing.  Though the Triple Crown is still going on, we are late enough in the season that … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Picks and Ponderings: Peter Pan and Man o’ War Preview

The Derby may have just ended…but plenty of people have Belmont on the brain already, and they’re showing up in … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Picks and Ponderings: 2015 Knickerbocker Stakes Preview

This Saturday’s card at Belmont features the Knickerbocker Stakes (GIII), a nine-furlong race for open-company turf runners.  It drew a … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Picks and Ponderings: 2015 Jockey Club Gold Cup Preview

Though most of the space at Picks and Ponderings this weekend will be devoted to Fall Stars at Keeneland, I … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Picks and Ponderings: Beldame Day Preview

This Saturday’s card at Belmont features five graded stakes races, all of which will likely have Breeders’ Cup implications. Picks … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

Curalina, and a few firsts…

Saturday, Curalina (Whatdreamsrmadeof, by Graeme Hall) made her stakes debut in the Acorn (GI). It was not the first time … More

Belmont Park, Curalina, Curlin

Belmont Stakes Day!

Belmont Stakes day is finally here!  Maybe we will see a Triple Crown today, and maybe there will be another … More

Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes

Picks and Ponderings: 2015 Belmont Stakes Point/Counterpoint

Eight horses have entered Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.  American Pharoah hopes to complete a Triple Crown…and after the prep season and … More

Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes, Frosted, Keen Ice

2015 Belmont Gold Cup

The Belmont Gold Cup is one of my favourite races of the year.  Though this year will only be its … More

Belmont Gold Cup, Belmont Park

Picks and Ponderings: New York Stakes Preview

This weekend is the biggest weekend of the year at Belmont, and the stakes action starts on Friday.  Over at … More

Belmont Park, Picks and Ponderings

on Palace Malice and expectations

I am a pessimist. I was not always that way.  When I was young, optimism seeped out of my pores.  … More

Belmont Park, Curlin, horse crush, meanderings, Palace Malice

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