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Justify became the 13th Triple Crown winner when he won the Belmont Stakes in June.

Justify's Belmont win named NTRA Moment of the Year

Voters overwhelmingly chose the Belmont Stakes win by undefeated Justify as the 2018 Moment of the Year, according to the administrator of the contest, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.Full Story >>

November 25, 2018

Brown works 18 over muddy training track

By David Grening

Trainer Chad Brown worked 18 horses, 10 of whom will be participating in graded stakes next weekend between New York and California, over a muddy training track Sunday morning at Belmont Park.

October 29, 2018

Handle down at rain-soaked Belmont fall meet

By David Grening

Bad weather meant bad business for the New York Racing Association during the Belmont Park fall meet.

October 28, 2018

Homeland Security wins Zagora as connections cap meet in style

By Jim Dunleavy

It was only fitting that trainer Chad Brown and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. teamed up Sunday to win the $125,000 Zagora, the final stakes of the Belmont Park fall meeting.

Sower all the way in Pumpkin Pie Stakes

By Jim Dunleavy

Sower made beating her elders look easy in the $100,000 Pumpkin Pie at Belmont Park on Sunday, going right to the lead in the seven-furlong race for fillies and mares and cruising home to win by 5 1/4 lengths.

Seek and Destroy relishes slop in Chelsey Flower win

By Jim Dunleavy

Javier Castellano put Seek and Destroy right on the lead in the $100,000 Chelsey Flower, and the daughter of Verrazano splashed her way to a 3 1/2-length victory in the one-mile race for 2-year-old fillies, which was originally scheduled for turf but ...

October 27, 2018

Belmont cancels Saturday card, reschedules all three stakes

By David Grening

Saturday’s 10-race card at Belmont Park was canceled due to dangerously high winds associated with a powerful coastal storm forecast to impact Long Island and the New York City area throughout the day.

October 26, 2018

Weather could factor in closing-day stakes

By David Grening

It won't be too calm after the storm as there are three stakes scheduled for Sunday's nine-race closing-day card at Belmont Park.

Brown's brigade beats the rain, works for Breeders' Cup

By David Grening

With a nor'easter forecast for Saturday, Friday became an extremely busy morning, with 24 horses pre-entered for Breeders' Cup races putting in workouts over three different tracks at Belmont Park.

October 25, 2018

Kharafa retired, to join Old Friends

By David Grening

Kharafa, the $1.2 million-earning New York-bred has been retired and will join his old friends Lubash and King Kreesa at Old Friends, a retirement farm in Lexington, Ky., trainer Tim Hills said.

Current tops Pletcher's Breeders' Cup hopefuls

By David Grening

Trainer Todd Pletcher pre-entered eight horses in the Breeders' Cup ,with Current among those with the best chances of winning a race.

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