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The New York Racing Association announced Friday that it will offer financial incentives to horsemen who participate in the five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which will be held at Saratoga from June 4-8.
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Hill Road, the third-place finisher behind Citizen Bull and Gaming in last November’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, is now with trainer Chad Brown and had his first workout Sunday at Payson Park.
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Rain impacted Sunday’s card, but it hardly put a damper on the first Belmont Stakes Racing Festival held at Saratoga Race Course.
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While heavy rain fell outside his barn Sunday morning, Dornoch was inside his stall attacking his hay net early with an energy belying the fact he just ran a hard race to win Saturday’s $2 million Belmont Stakes.
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After watching Mindframe stick his head in front of Dornoch in early stretch, one couldn’t blame trainer Todd Pletcher, owner Mike Repole, and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. for thinking they were on their way to winning Saturday’s historic, first-ever Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Unfortunately, the two intangibles they feared the most coming into the race – his inexperience and the added distance – likely wound up proving the difference between what would have been a memorable victory and a most frustrating defeat.
Presented by DK Horse, Steven Crist, Andrew Beyer, and David Aragona discuss the 2024 Belmont Stakes Festival at Saratoga.
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Saturday, in the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes, trainer Chad Brown hopes to mimic his mentor when he sends Kentucky Derby runner-up Sierra Leone out against Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Preakness winner Seize the Grey in the first-ever Belmont Stakes to be run in Saratoga.
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It's a major change on the spring schedule: The Belmont Stakes will be contested Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, at a distance of 1 1/4 miles. The massive renovation of Belmont Park necessitates the move for the next two years; the configuration of Saratoga's 1 1/8-mile track necessitates the distance shift from the traditional 1 1/2 miles. But while the Belmont is the oldest of the Triple Crown races, a constant in its early decades was change.
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Dornoch looks to restore somewhat of a tarnished image when he starts as a probable longshot in a field of 10 in Saturday's $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.
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With all the heavy lifting over, Monday proved a relatively quiet day on the Belmont Stakes training front with much of the activity that did occur taking place early over the very popular Oklahoma training track.
