Let’s get one thing straight: This year’s Belmont Stakes-G1 is not your typical Test of the Champion. It’s a Saratoga showdown — with tighter turns, a shorter stretch, and less time and room for early dawdlers to have the same impact they would at Belmont Park.
Journalism enters the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga — can we call it the Presummer Derby? — as the 8-5 morning-line favorite, riding high off a courageous win in the Preakness Stakes. On paper, he looks like the horse to beat.
Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes when post positions were drawn Monday for the final leg of the Triple Crown.
The Breeders' Cup world championships are returning to New York in 2027 at the rebuilt Belmont Park, following a massive renovation project to revitalize one of the most important horse racing tracks in the country.
The world of horse racing lost one of the sport’s most prominent North American trainers as Christophe Clement, 59, has passed away, it was announced on Sunday.
Larry Demeritte, a Bahamas native and longtime trainer who realized his dream of running a horse in the Kentucky Derby last year, has died at 75, his wife, Inga, confirmed to the Louisville Courier-Journal reported on Tuesday.
After a close second-place finish at the Kentucky Derby, Journalism bounced back in a big -- and thrilling -- way on Saturday to gets its big win of 2025 by taking the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes.
Just nine horses will race in the 150th Preakness Stakes, nearly half the number that ran in the Kentucky Derby. Yet, more than a third of the nine-horse field has double-digit odds to win first place and the $1.2 million prize.
This year's Preakness Stakes is certainly special. Not only is it the 150th anniversary of the iconic race, but it's also the last time the race will be held at Pimlico Race Course.
It may not have been as close as last year's photo finish Kentucky Derby, but the 151st running on Saturday evening still produced plenty of drama down the stretch.
Mike Tirico had to turn to the bullpen during Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. The longtime NBC announcer Tirico was forced to exit early from the network’s coverage of the annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
The betting favorite has not won the Kentucky Derby since 2018, adding to the drama when Journalism enters the starting gate at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday evening.
The pair of Japanese horses entered in the Kentucky Derby turned in their final work on the Churchill Downs dirt track on Tuesday, with mostly rest ahead prior to race day in Louisville, Ky.
When you’ve got a bet on a horse that’s leading by five lengths with half a furlong left in any race, you have to feel supremely confident about your wager. Not so fast ...
The 149th Preakness Stakes is Saturday at 7 p.m. ET. Action Network has the latest Preakness odds, best bets and expert picks for Pimlico's Triple Crown race.
Following is a collection of quotes from the trainers of each of the 19 non-winning entries in Saturday's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, won by Mystik Dan.