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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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