Rags to Riches Loses in Return to Belmont Park
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Learâs Princess overtook the Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches and pulled off an upset Saturday in the Gazelle Stakes at Belmont Park in New York.
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One day, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was on the road to a Triple Crown. A day later, he was on a long and perilous road to recovery.
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Rags To Riches, who became only the third filly in history to capture the Belmont Stakes, suffered a hairline fracture to her right front leg on Saturday in finishing second in the Gazelle Stakes.
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It's been nearly 20 years since a filly won a Triple Crown race, and more than a century since a filly won the Belmont Stakes.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Birdstone did it once, winning the Belmont Stakes, but he had to do it again to prove his class, and he accomplished the mission by capturing the 135th running of the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga yesterday. Now, the retired Smarty Jones, defeated by Birdstone in the Belmont, has company atop the 3-year-old division.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- Finally. Ultimately, if not decisively. After 102 years, a filly has won the Belmont Stakes.
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It took The Boss more than an hour to emerge from Yankee Stadium after his team&#39;s descent into history-book infamy last night with its 10-3 loss to the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS.
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Aggadan beat Personal Touch by three-quarters of a length to win yesterday's $60,000 allowance feature for older horses at Belmont Park.
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NEW YORK -- Tracing the tracks of their tears back to the ballpark in the Bronx where all the horrible things happened last October, the Red Sox returned to the American League Championship Series last night, fell behind, 8-0, then rallied mightily before again succumbing to the Yankees, 10-7.
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2006 will mark the first time in 19 years the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes will not be shown on the same network as ABC will host the Belmont.
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Four major races will be held tomorrow as earnest preparation begins for the Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Oct. 30. Belmont Park will host the $300,000 Matron for 2-year-old fillies, at 1 mile, the $300,000 Futurity, for 2-year-old colts, also at a mile, and the $300,000 Ruffian Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile and one-16th. Woodbine will hold ...
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The initial reaction after Curlin nipped Street Sense in the Preakness was of excitement of seeing a classic horse race and disappointment that the quest to see a Triple Crown winner would have to wait another year -- for the 29th straight time.
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It's no monster 20-horse field like the Kentucky Derby. There's no Kentucky Derby winner like in the Preakness. Until Tuesday, the 139th running of the Belmont Stakes was shaping up as a $1 million feature race at Belmont Park and not much more.
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Kentucky Derby champion and Preakness Stakes runner-up Street Sense will miss the Belmont Stakes, trainer Carl Nafzger said on Thursday.
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ELMONT, New York  - Rags to Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she won a thrilling stretch duel with Preakness champion Curlin on Saturday to triumph by a head.
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Lear's Princess overtook Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches in the stretch and pulled off an upset yesterday in the $250,000 Gazelle Stakes at Belmont Park.
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Many wondered whether Belmont, without senior All-Scholastic Michelle Sheehan, had the firepower to prolong its undefeated season.