June 6, 2015 Over the years, a number of very good horses have won the Canadian version of the Eclipse Stakes, including Queen’s Plate winner Royal Chocolate, Hall Of Fame entrants Overskate, Frost King and Izvestia, and more recently, True… Read More ›
STAKES ARTICLES
All the Stakes previews and reviews.
Close Call for MTH Stakes
The MTH Stakes looks to be a close call as most of the runners have covered the distance in around the 1.45 mark there was only a nose between Honorable Eight and Two Smoking Barrels in The Fort Marcy with… Read More ›
The Class of Z Jinxed One Shows Up;Wins Going Away in Belmont Gold Cup
Coming into the race the weather did not cooperate with the field and the turf course came up soft which could have a major outcome on the race. Early in the mile and a half journey Caught Red Hoofed and… Read More ›
Trench Admiral by a Nose in Aristides BC
5/30/15 Post Time 2:45PM RACE 7 CD Aristides BC (GIII) Purse $100.000 3yo&Up 6f Dirt Well, that’s about as close as it gets…. but after checking the photograph, Trench Admiral was the slightest bit faster than Welcome Change and got… Read More ›
Mister Major Warrants Major Look In Grade I Met Mile
June 4, 2015 One of the most important races for handicap horses each year is the Grade I Metropolitan Handicap, or the “Met Mile”, and this Saturday, it will once again be held at Belmont on its traditional spot on… Read More ›
Know How Causeway for The NY.
Know How Causeway could return to winning ways after running two good runs over today’s distance late last year in The Flower Bowl – Grade I beaten by half a length second and The BC Fillies & Mares Turf –… Read More ›
Seven Go Postward in the ET Mint Julip
The ET Mint Julip, Purse $100, Grade 3, 1 1/16th miles, Turf for F&M 3+ Belmont Day is here which ends the triple cown and the ET Mint Julip is a graded stakes race that is being run at CD… Read More ›
Google Maps Leads The Way In Grade I Acorn
June 3, 2015 Belmont Stakes Day has become one of the biggest days of racing in North America since a move to bring many of the major Grade I races of the late Spring together came to fruition last year… Read More ›
Tough, Tough Crowd in The Phipps Stakes (GI) [BC] – Preview
6/6/2015 Post Time 5:25 RACE 9 BEL The Phipps Stakes (GI) [BC] $1,000.000 F&M 4YO&Up 1 1/16 m Dirt The BIG girls come out to play for big, big money as we look at the field for the 2015 Phipps… Read More ›
Sophomores Go Seven Panels in Stephens (GII) – Preview
6/6/2015 Post Time 3:25PM RACE 5 BEL The Stephens (GII) $500.000 3yo 7f Dirt Sophomore Sprinters will be the tale in this one as a full gate looks ready to get seven furlongs in The Stephens (GII), over the main… Read More ›