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The post position draw for the 2024 NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes is set for today at noon at Monmouth Park, so check back for complete coverage, including post positions and morning line odds. For now ...
Blue Grass Stakes. Post time: 5:52 p.m. Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington.Purse: $1 million.Grade: 1.Distance: 1 1/8 miles.Jockey weight: 123 pounds. TV: FanDuel TV.Kentucky Derby qualifying ...
May 18, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Jamie Torres aboard Seize the Grey (6) lreacts after winning the 149th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.
The 2023 Belmont Stakes was the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes and the 112th time the event took place at Belmont Park.The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 furlongs; 2,414 metres) race, known as the "test of the champion", is the final leg in the American Triple Crown, open to three-year-old thoroughbreds.
In 1938 the conditions of the event were changed to a handicap for horses three-years-old and older and the distance set at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles. [3] In 1940 the distance was extended to 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles for two runnings in which Joe DeSoto's Steel Heels won both events including setting a new track record in 1941. [ 4 ]
It would eventually go as high as $300,000 in 2008 for a live foal. The fee later dropped, and in 2018 was $50,000. [6] Funny Cide was consigned to the August 2001 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga-preferred yearling auction, where he was inspected by Tony Everard, a "pinhooker" looking for young, undeveloped horses to train and resell in a few months at a ...
The Travers Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.It is nicknamed the "Midsummer Derby" [2] and is the third-ranked race for American three-year-olds according to international classifications, behind only the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. [3]
A crowd of 150,729 turned out for the Derby. The rain held off until late afternoon, but then drenched the track, turning the track condition sloppy. [1] Maximum Security went off as the second favorite (behind Improbable) at odds of 9–2 based on his frontrunning win in the Florida Derby.