Saturday’s 13-race card at Monmouth Park features four stakes races including the featured $300,000 United Nations (G1) at 1 3/8 miles on the turf, which makes Monmouth the center of attention in…
Articles by Author: Noel Michaels
The Saturday, June 22, 2019, race card at Canterbury Park is one of the best days of the meet, complete with five stakes races worth a combined $500,000. The stakes action gets…
The $125,000 Mint Julep Stakes (G3) will be run as Race 10 at Churchill Downs on Saturday afternoon. Contested at 1 1/16 miles on the turf course, it attracted a field of…
by Noel Michaels A common perception in the Belmont Stakes (G1) is that closers usually benefit from the 1 1/2-mile distance in the race, but recent history has shown this not to…
by Noel Michaels Notwithstanding the victory in 2018 of Triple Crown winner Justify, the Belmont Stakes (G1) is truly one of the great unheralded graveyards for favorites in all of horse racing.…