ELMONT, N.Y. – Forte didn’t make the starting gate for either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness, but the results of those races may have only served to validate the credentials of the 2-year-old champion.
Mage won the Kentucky Derby. Forte beat him twice this spring. National Treasure and Blazing Sevens ran one-two, heads apart, in the Preakness. Forte beat them both in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Horsemen with runners in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes did not seem overly upset they were unable to train their horses Thursday at Belmont Park.
Due to the poor air quality conditions in the New York area stemming from the wind-blown smoke from the Canadian wildfires, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday evening that it had canceled training for Thursday at both Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Technically, Angel of Empire will be getting a change of equipment when trainer Brad Cox adds blinkers for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
However, the blinkers are not totally new to Angel of Empire, who has frequently trained in them throughout his career, but never raced in them.
“I pretty much work everything in blinkers when they’re young,” Cox said.
But when Cox started running Angel of Empire a distance of ground, “I thought I’d just leave them off, let him relax, and it worked out well.”
Tapit, the most successful sire in the modern history of the Belmont Stakes and looking to secure the race’s sire record outright this weekend, wouldn’t be here without him. Neither would Quality Road, sire of Preakness Stakes winner National Treasure. And nor would four-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief, who will have Kentucky Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous in action this weekend at Belmont Park.
Belmont Park
Tuesday, June 6
Weather: Cloudy
Temperature: 62
Track: Fast
ELMONT, N.Y. - An early appearance by the two likely favorites and a late surprise after the renovation break from one of the live longshots in the field highlighted the Belmont Stakes watch Tuesday morning at Belmont Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Seven of the last 10 winners of the Belmont Stakes have come from the barn of trainers Todd Pletcher, Brad Cox, Bob Baffert, and Steve Asmussen.
Those four horsemen accounted for seven of the nine 3-year-olds entered Tuesday when post positions were assigned for Saturday’s $155th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.
The field for Saturday’s 155th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.
2023 Belmont Stakes
Distance: 1 1/2 miles
Track: Belmont Park
Post time: 7:05 p.m. Eastern
TV: FOX
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ELMONT, N.Y. - When trainer Jena Antonucci sent Belmont Stakes contender Arcangelo out to train Tuesday morning, she was just looking for an open gallop where the colt would click off furlongs at a rate of approximately 15 seconds over a mile distance.
Arcangelo had a different plan.
Arcangelo, under exercise rider Robert Mallari, put in what Daily Racing Form is calling a five-furlong work in 1:02.47, one in which he got his last three furlongs in 36.75 seconds while continuing out six furlongs in 1:15.25, seven furlongs in 1:27.55, and a mile in 1:40.44.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Raise Cain, the eighth-place finisher from the Kentucky Derby, has been rerouted from Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes to Sunday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Matt Winn Stakes at Ellis Park, trainer Ben Colebrook said Monday afternoon.
The Matt Winn was originally scheduled to be run at 1 1/16 miles at Churchill Downs. With the decision to stop racing at Churchill due to the spate of equine fatalities this spring and move racing scheduled for Churchill to Ellis Park, the Matt Winn will now be run at 1 1/8 miles.
ELMONT, N.Y. – National Treasure and Red Route One are both exiting the same race and are both trained by Hall of Fame horsemen, but their final works here Monday for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes couldn’t have been accomplished in a more diverse fashion.
