SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.  – Yet another era ended Monday at America's oldest racetrack. Though it lasted a mere three years, the Belmont-at-Saratoga stretch of summer seasons were distinctive, memorable, never-to-happen-again and now part of the storied history of the track. A decade ago, did anyone think that the GI Belmont Stakes would be staged even

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Team Europe has been a kid in the candy store for the last several years at Kentucky Downs, and their graded stakes domination continued during the 2026 season as Take Charge Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) strode home powerfully to claim the GII Mint Franklin-Simpson Stakes hardware on day six of the boutique seven-day meet. A

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It probably wasn't quite the gate-to-wire trip his connections hoped for, but when called on to show his heart, Lennox the Grey (Liam's Map) did not disappoint by battling back late to win the GIII Old Dominion Derby at Colonial Downs. The grey began his career at Woodbine in the barn of Catherine Day-Phillips and

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A last-out winner in the Spa's GII Hall of Fame on Aug. 7, Bottas (Vekoma) returned to make it two straight with a convincing victory in Monday's Gun Runner Stakes at Kentucky Downs. Installed the 2-1 choice off a season that has seen him finish off the board only once previously, Bottas was unhurried early

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Citrus Springs just got her head on the line first to give her freshman sire Olympiad (by Speightstown) his first stakes winner in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Turf Monday. The dark bay filly, making her first stateside appearance, shadowed pacesetting Elegante Miz through fractions of :23.12 and :46.29. She was ridden to overtake the

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