The heat wave moving through the Midwest has led Horseshoe Indianapolis to cancel its Monday and Tuesday live racing programs, the track announced Monday.
Horseshoe Indianapolis was scheduled to run 10 races on the Tuesday program, starting at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Temperatures in central Indiana are expected to top 100 on Tuesday. The area is currently under a heat advisory that does not expire until Wednesday night.
Total handle on the Belmont Stakes on Saturday was down 16.5 percent compared to betting on the race last year, according to charts of the races.
Including multi-leg bets ending in the Belmont Stakes, total handle was $50.25 million, compared to $60.15 million last year. Both races had eight horses in the field.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Corniche, last year’s 2-year-old champion male, is being pointed to the Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong race at Saratoga on July 31 for his 3-year-old debut, trainer Todd Pletcher said Friday.
Corniche hasn’t raced since last November at Del Mar when he completed a perfect 3-for-3 season by winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar. He was trained as a juvenile by Bob Baffert.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Thursday’s seventh race at Belmont Park scratched down to a match race after seven of the nine entrants were scratched, four due to not having been administered Lasix in the proper window, according to the New York Racing Association.
Sonny Leon was already riding high when he went postward in his first Kentucky Derby last month aboard longshot Rich Strike. The jockey, who was seeking his first graded stakes victory in the classic, was coming off a career-best season in 2021.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Perhaps if Flightline had not been injured as a 2-year-old he would have started his career sooner. And if not for other minor setbacks following two of his races, perhaps he’d have more starts than just three by now.
But maybe, just maybe, all of this has been for the best. It certainly has led, inexorably, to this, the biggest test of his brief but brilliant career, in the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap on Saturday here at Belmont Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. – A behind-the-scenes player for many noteworthy horses over the last 15 years or so, trainer Rodolphe Brisset has stepped into the spotlight with We the People, the morning-line favorite for Saturday’s 154th Belmont Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. – In its 10 years of existence, the racehorse partnership Eclipse Thoroughbreds has had 16 different Grade 1-winning racehorses, captured two Breeders’ Cup races, a Triple Crown race, the Australian Oaks, and a stakes at Royal Ascot. Pretty heady stuff. But this coming week has the potential to be one of the most significant in the organization’s history.
ELMONT, N.Y. - There are a bevy of multiple-race, multiple-day wagers on Friday and Saturday at Belmont Park.
There is a pick-6 with a minimum 20-cent wager that will include races run over two days. The wager consists of Friday’s True North and New York Stakes and Saturday’s Woody Stephens, Jaipur, Manhattan and Belmont Stakes. The takeout is 15 percent and the entire pool must be paid out.
There will be a pick-four with a $2 minimum bet that consists of Friday’s New York and Intercontinental and Saturday’s Manhattan and Belmont. The takeout is 24 percent.
German jockey Rene Piecheluk was unable to obtain a visa permitting him to travel from Germany to New York and thus won’t be able to ride likely favorite Loft in the Grade 2, $400,000 Belmont Gold Cup on Friday.
Loft’s connections quickly found a replacement jockey on Tuesday in the German rider Andrasch Starke.
Piecheluk was set to make his U.S. debut in the Gold Cup, while Starke has compiled a record of 1-3-4 in 21 North American races. His winner came in the 2015 American St. Leger at Arlington Park aboard Lucky Speed.
