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All eyes figure to be on the outside posts when the gates open for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) June 8 at Belmont Park as they briefly will house Preakness Stakes (G1) winner War of Will in post 9 and morning-line favorite Tacitus in post 10. I'm in agreement with the morning line as this year's Belmont has some ...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, I am reprinting a story from 2013 when Rick Porter had Normandy Invasion in the Kentucky Derby and brought several survivors of the invasion to Churchill Downs, taking them to the backstretch one morning to meet his horse where they all told stories, still with vivid recollection, of their ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman It's hard to believe another Triple Crown season has come and (practically) gone. The 2019 series wraps up on Saturday with the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park, the highlight of a spectacular card that includes seven other Grade 1 events. Contrary to popular ...

Twenty years have passed since that warm June afternoon at Belmont Park when Bob and Beverly Lewis’ Charismatic made his bid for the Triple Crown. The story of his run, along with that of his rider, Chris Antley, bears revisiting. Use of Mike Corrado’s photograph of Antley’s valiant attempt to comfort the injured colt after he dismounted past the ...

Just breaking from the gate as planned in the June 8 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) at Belmont Park will separate War of Will from this year's other 3-year-olds as the Preakness Stakes (G1) winner is expected to be the lone horse to start in all three legs of this year's Triple Crown. Starting in the first two classics has proven a ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman There's no shortage of high-class racing action scheduled across the world this weekend. There's the Investec Derby (Eng-I) in England, the Yasuda Kinen (Jpn-I) in Japan, plus 35 assorted stakes races throughout North America... we won't run out of entertaining races to watch and ...

It has been widely believed since his premature retirement that Justify's competition in the Triple Crown was subpar, or let's just say downright weak. Whenever people ask me during or just after the Triple Crown what I think of the crop of 3-year-olds, or whenever they state emphatically it is a poor crop, which many have a tendency to do, I ...

The Memorial Day weekend could have been a downer. Before the holiday weekend even began came the news of the loss of respected horseman J.J. Crupi, who died May 23 in Maryland at the age of 79. We remember him first from his training days, winning races ''down the Shore'' at Monmouth Park in the late 1980s. He later found his true calling as a ...

Try to imagine how tough it is to win a Triple Crown race. Then try to imagine winning two of the three legs. Then try to imagine winning two of the three legs with two different horses. In the past half century you can count on one hand the number of times that has been accomplished. This year we have a rarity – two trainers with an ...