Belmont Park

In lieu of a stakes, the Sunday feature at Belmont Park is a $77,000 first-level allowance race for fillies and mares highlighted by a pair of 3-year-olds from top barns.

No trainer plays the claiming game in New York better these days than David Jacobson, a point he drove home Thursday winning four races at Belmont Park, all with horses making their first start off the claim.

Called to Serve, who was developing into a solid player in the handicap division, will be out until late fall after injuring a splint bone, trainer Nick Canani said.

When John Shirreffs shipped Eblouissante from Southern California to New York last month, he was hoping to have Zenyatta’s younger half-sister ready for Monday’s Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Handicap.

As he approaches one milestone this year and an even more significant one likely next year, jockey John Velazquez maintains that he still has “that fire” to compete at the highest level.

Hessonite’s next opportunity to prove herself at a distance of ground comes in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes, a 1 3/8-mile test over Belmont Park’s Widener turf course.

Memorial Day Weekend kicks off with a Saturday stakes schedule that focuses primarily on turf. The day’s two Grade 2 events – the $200,000 Sheepshead Bay at Belmont Park and the $150,000 American Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park – are scheduled to be ...

Rosie Napravnik will seek to join Julie Krone as the only female jockeys to have won the Belmont Stakes. She will ride Code West in the Belmont on June 8, trainer Bob Baffert said Thursday.