By Noel Michaels Arlington Racecourse has a successful history of being able to rise from the ashes – literally. So perhaps none of aus should be surprised that the beautiful race track in the subur...
By Noel Michaels If you are a serious horseplayer and you are not already looking forward to the Saratoga meet, it might be time to check your pulse because Saratoga is the summer place to be for hand...
By Noel Michaels It’s summer in Southern California, and for horseplayers that can only mean one thing: Del Mar is here! The summer Del Mar season opens early on Friday (July 10) and will usher in C...
By Noel Michaels Blink and you’ll miss it. While horseplayers look forward to the start of the big summer meets at Saratoga and Del Mar in the next week or two, we all will be treated to a special b...
By Noel Michaels The Belmont Stakes is behind us and the talk of the Belmont summer meet so far has been Tiz the Law, who creamed the competition in what was this year’s first leg of the Triple Crow...
By Noel Michaels The 2020 running of the Belmont Stakes is in the books, and the winner was New York-bred Tiz the Law, ridden by Manny Franco, trained by Barclay Tagg, and owned by Sackatoga Stable, r...
By Noel Michaels Belmont Stakes Day isn’t just about the Belmont Stakes, it’s about an entire day of high-quality racing and wagering that also features five graded stakes on the undercard includi...
(Note: The Belmont Stakes on June 20 is the first leg of the Triple Crown this year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the races will be run without spectators, and the order of the races has been ch...
By Noel Michaels The Belmont Park racing season is off and running, and not surprisingly the condensed meet has assembled the nation’s strongest and most competitive jockey colony to ride for a whoâ...
By Noel Michaels The new season at Belmont Park has arrived. The 2020 spring/summer meet opens June 3 (Wednesday), and runs through July 12. In many ways, the shortened 25-race-day meet will look a lo...