The festival will include 27 stakes races with purses totaling $11,275,000, the richest purses and highest number of stakes offered since the launch of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival in 2014.

Scott Jordan became NYRA's head starter in May, having spent two decades in the same job at Churchill Downs. He started this ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – “Start spreadin’ the news”! The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) is making “a brand-new start of it” during the 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at ...

Heart of Honor is out of the group 1-winning Scat Daddy mare Ruby Love and has banked $400,919 via a 2-4-0 record from seven starts.. Pletcher Not Ruling Out Belmont for Grande, Crudo. Hall of ...

Heart of Honor (30-1) ran a close second in the G2 UAE Derby, then traveled to the U.S. for the Preakness Stakes. Despite walking out of the starting gate and trailing early, he rallied to finish ...

Preakness Stakes winner Journalism returns to the races on Saturday when he leaves the starting gate in the 2025 Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park ...

Gate Crew, Belmont Stakes Day, Saratoga Race Course, June 8 2024 Coglianese Photos/Walter Wlodarczyk Gate Crew - Kentucky Derby - CD - 050424 Coady Media/Kurtis Coady ...