The 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes will be the longest distance test to date in the careers of all 14 horses entered in Saturday’s race and for most, if not all of them, it will be the longest they will ever have to run in competition.
Although there is no Triple Crown on the line, history could still be made in this Belmont Stakes by Unlimited Budget and her rider, Rosie Napravnik.
DRF Breeding staff writer Joe Nevills analyzes the Belmont Stakes field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Khalid Abdullah of Juddmonte Farms, a multiple Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder, will disperse part of the stock from his prominent international racing and breeding outfit.
Walter Bay, owner and breeder of champion Quarter Horse Cold Cash 123 and track president of Mount Pleasant Meadows in Central Michigan, died of cancer on June 6 at age 75.
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It would be difficult to find a more experienced or impassioned voice for Thoroughbred racing than Lonny Powell.
The deal took 15 minutes and could have been done faster if they’d skipped the small talk. Mike Pegram vividly remembers his conversation with the late Scoop Vessels in the fall of 1994, negotiating for the stallion In Excess to move to the historic Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, Calif.
Clubhouse Ride’s breakthrough win in the Grade 2 Californian Stakes on June 1 at Betfair Hollywood Park brought the veteran handicap horse much-deserved recognition after he performed in the shadow of Game On Dude throughout the spring. It also added more West Coast luster to the résumé of Lane’s End stallion Candy Ride.
William Boorhem, a leading owner and breeder in Louisiana, died May 31 in Dallas, Texas. He was 91.
Group 1 winner French Fifteen has been retired and will enter stud next year at Haras du Logis Saint Germain in Normandy, France.
