Brown looks for Belmont Stakes upset - June 8, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Chad Brown will try to emulate his mentor, the late Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, by ending a Triple Crown try on...
I'll Have Another, from baby to the Belmont - June 8, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - He was a horse with no name, a yearling in a sales ring at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., about 90 minutes from Churchill...
Red Defense wins feature at Betfair Hollywood Park - June 7, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Favored 5-year-old gelding Red Defense beat Nofty by 1 1/2 lengths Thursday in the $55,400 feature race at Bet...
Horse trainer 'Drug' O'Neill has plenty of company - June 7, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The affable man with the horse that may become the first Triple Crown winner in more than a generation can't seem to...
Luck, breeding, distance make Triple try tough - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The Triple Crown...Three races in a five-week span at varying distances on different tracks. So tough only 11 horses ha...
2 jockeys fall off mounts in race at Belmont Park - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Jockeys Rosie Napravnik and Irad Ortiz Jr. were thrown from their mounts in the seventh race at Belmont Park on Thursda...
Strategic Missile wins Belmont feature - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Strategic Missile led all the way Thursday for a 39-1 payoff in the $59,000 allowance feature for New York-bred fillies...
I'll Have Another tunes up for Triple Crown finale - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another turned in another strong gallop as he prepares for the Belmont Stakes on Satur...
Stevens has been on both sides of Triple try - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Three-quarters of a length from winning a Triple Crown one year, a scant nose from allowing someone else to win it the ...
Could Triple Crown winner revive fading sport? - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The prospect of a Triple Crown winner is raising expectations that the afterglow will reinvigorate a troubled sport...S...
Hall and Breen back for another Belmont Stakes bid - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - My Adonis, a late addition to the Belmont Stakes field, landed the outside slot when post positions were drawn on Wedne...
Reddam puts study of knowledge to work in racing - June 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - As a philosophy professor at California State University in Los Angeles, J. Paul Reddam dabbled in logic and epistemolo...
Countdown to Triple Crown: Triple try alibis - June 7, 2012
There have been 30 horses who came into the Belmont Stakes with a chance to win the Triple Crown. Eleven succeeded in sweeping the Kent...
Lukas back at work after a kick to the head - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Even a kick in the head couldn't keep D. Wayne Lukas away, not with the Belmont Stakes coming up on Saturday...The Hall...
Union: Labor deal averts strike before Belmont - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Belmont racetrack workers have struck a labor deal with the New York Racing Association to head off a possible strike o...
Divine Music wins Belmont feature - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Divine Music led all the way Wednesday, beating 3-5 favorite Hillswick by 3 1-2 lengths in the $74,000 allowance featur...
Matz, Union Rags looking for clean trip in Belmont - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - In the moments before the Kentucky Derby, trainer Michael Matz thought it would be his horse attempting to win the Trip...
Union: Tentative deal averts strike before Belmont - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A union official says a tentative deal has been reached between Belmont racetrack workers and the New York Racing Assoc...
I'll Have Another enters Belmont detention barn - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another has entered the Belmont Stakes detention barn, joining most of the horses he wil...
I'll Have Another made 4-5 favorite to win Belmont - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - I'll Have Another was made the 4-5 early favorite to win the Belmont Stakes and become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown...
My Adonis brings prospective field to 12 - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - I'll Have Another will have one more rival in the Belmont Stakes as he tries to become the first Triple Crown winner in...
Trainer McPeek seeks to spoil another Triple try - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Ken McPeek wants to spoil another Triple Crown try...He did it 10 years ago, when 70-1 Sarava charged to victory in the...
Belmont and that's not all on big NYC sports day - June 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - New York likes to think of itself as the hub of, well, pretty much everything. Finance, fashion, theater. And this Satu...
My Adonis to be entered in Belmont field - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - I'll Have Another will have one more rival in the Belmont Stakes as he tries to become the first Triple Crown winner in...
Jockey Gutierrez hits the heights in New York - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Taking in the Manhattan skyline from atop the Empire State Building, Mario Gutierrez was a long way from his small home...
I'll Have Another waits extra day to change barns - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Trainer Doug O'Neill delayed the detention barn check-in for Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another...The Kentucky De...
Trainer Lukas in hospital after horse kicks head - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was hospitalized on Tuesday after one of his horses reared up and kicked him in the...
Labor woes at Belmont as Triple Crown bid nears - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A mediator will attempt to settle a labor dispute at Belmont Park that threatens to scratch I'll Have Another's chance ...
Belmont race caller readies for history in making - June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - If I'll Have Another becomes horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and first in 34 years on Saturday in the Belmont S...
I'll Have Another on move to new Belmont digs - June 4, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another is headed to new digs, along with his potential 10 rivals in Saturday's Belmon...
Desormeaux lands Belmont Stakes ride - June 4, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Kent Desormeaux has landed a ride in the Belmont Stakes after losing his mount in the Preakness Stakes because he faile...
Dullahan's trainer relishing Triple spoiler's role - June 4, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Dale Romans has become quite the veteran of Triple Crown races...The easygoing trainer from Louisville, Ky., picked up ...
Nonios pulls upset to win Affirmed Handicap - June 3, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Nonios defeated Liaison by a half-length to win the $100,000 Affirmed Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on Su...
I Bet Toni Knows and King Kreesa win stakes - June 3, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - I Bet Toni Knows and King Kreesa won the $75,000 divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds on the turf ...
Little Kiara narrowly wins Monmouth Park feature - June 3, 2012
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) - Little Kiara rallied in the deep stretch to beat Emily Allstar by a nose in the $60,000 Open Mind Handicap at Mo...
Irish Mission comes on to capture Woodbine Oaks - June 3, 2012
TORONTO (AP) - Irish Mission came on down the stretch to win the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks on Sunday...Irish Mission, a 9-1 pick with Alex...
If it's not 1 thing it's another before Triple try - June 3, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Nothing ever comes easy in the nerve-racking weeks before the Belmont Stakes with a Triple Crown on the line...Doug O'N...
Belmont horses breeze; I'll Have Another gallops - June 3, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The horse with possibly the best chance to spoil I'll Have Another's bid for a Triple Crown posted a strong workout six...
Game On Dude wins Californian for Baffert, Torre - June 2, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Game On Dude led all the way to win the $147,000 Californian by a record 71/4 lengths on Saturday at Betfair H...
C C's Pal wins Belmont's Vagrancy Handicap - June 2, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - C C's Pal held off Nicole H by a neck on Saturday to win the $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap for fillies and mares at Belmon...