This Triple Crown had everything but a Triple Crown – great finishes, politics, terrible starts, confused bureaucrats, suspicion, assumptions, jockey changes, an unknown jockey who ended up at the top of the Empire State Building, three weeks of anticipation, and a final-hours scratch that changed everything.
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which this week covers races on June 16, 2012, including Churchill Downs's Stephen Foster and Fleur de Lis, as well as Hollywood Park's Vanity.
Which stakes race on Sunday has a field of six runners who have 23 prior starts in Grade 1 stakes, seven in Grade 2 company, and five in Grade 3 races from the 66 starts showing among their past performances? Is it the 1 1/16-mile, Grade 3, $100,000 Pegasus at Monmouth Park, the five-furlong, $150,000 Parx Dash, or the six-furlong, $70,000 Desert Stormer at Hollywood?
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday June 16th, 2012
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which includes Saturday, June 9, 2012 racing at Belmont Park and Betfair Hollywood Park - with the Belmont Stakes featured from the former.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday June 9th
Join Daily Racing Form handicappers and correspondents Brad Free, Marcus Hersh, Byron King, and Jay Privman for a live handicapping chat this Thursday, June 7, starting at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Join Daily Racing Form handicappers Steve Andersen, Mike Beer, and Dan Illman for a live handicapping chat this Wednesday, June 6, starting at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which includes weekend stakes races such as the 2012 Hollywood Park's Californian Stakes and Belmont's Vagrancy Handicap.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday June 2nd
