Articles tagged with: triple crown
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All three winners of this year’s Triple Crown races will be in action on the weekend at two different tracks. Three big graded stakes totaling $2.5 million have attracted some top 3-year-olds to Mountaineer, Saratoga and ... read more
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The Belmont Stakes has become a tricky race to handicap lately for several reasons.
Favorites have triumphed nearly 43 percent in the past 140 races, but during the last 30 years only six scored – 23 percent. And a dozen winners paid double-digits — ... read more
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Calvin Borel has emerged as the star of this year’s racing scene and stands a good chance of becoming the only jockey to win the Triple Crown on two different horses.
With Preakness winner Rachel Alexander sitting out the Belmon... read more
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Fillies, it might surprise you, have done well in Triple Crown events dating back to the late 1800s. Overall, one-third of 114 female runners hit the board.
In the Belmont Stakes, 10 fillies that ran in 22 races finished i... read more
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Triple Crown hopeful filly Stardom Bound had a close call last Saturday in the Santa Anita Oaks. She was forced to run wide down the stretch and barely won by a nose. It was not the performance that Michael Iavarone and IEAH Stables was expecting, and ... read more
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Winners of Saturday’s four preps on the Road to the Roses have triumphed seven times at Louisville the past three decades.
Thirteen won at least one of 19 Triple Crown events starting with Affirmed in 1978 ... read more
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Champion two-year-old Midshipman has been injured and will miss the Triple Crown, according to a statement Sunday on the website of his owner, Godolphin Racing. Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner has suffered a minor soft tissue i... read more
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Big Brown is No. 1 again before he even stampedes out of the gate at the Belmont Stakes.
Big Brown will take his shot at Triple Crown history from the inside, drawing the No. 1 post for Saturday’s race. The post could be a lucky one for an undefeated colt that really doesn’t need ... read more
