ELMONT, N.Y. – From juvenile champion, to Florida Derby winner, to being scratched as the favorite on Kentucky Derby morning, the roller-coaster ride that Forte has been on during the opening half of his 3-year-old campaign didn’t quite end on the high note that trainer Todd Pletcher and his owners – Mike Repole and Vinnie Viola – had hoped for with his second-place finish in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
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Results and payouts from the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on June 10, 2023, at Belmont Park.
3 Arcangelo - $17.80 $7.20 $4.90
6 Forte - $4.30 $3.30
2 Tapit Trice - $4.10
Hit Show, Angel of Empire (Dead heat)
National Treasure
Il Miracolo
Red Route One
Tapit Shoes
$1.00 EXACTA 3-6 $34.00
$0.50 TRIFECTA 3-6-2 $66.62
$0.10 SUPERFECTA 3-6-2-8 $19.15
$0.10 SUPERFECTA 3-6-2-7 $29.25
$1.00 DAILY DOUBLE 8-3 $35.50
$1.00 GRAND SLAM 4 OF 4 4,10,11,12,16-1,6,9-4,5,8-3 $25.75
Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:28
ELMONT, N.Y. - Fifty years ago, Secretariat made Penny Chenery the First Lady of Thoroughbred racing with his Triple Crown sweep that culminated with a performance in the Belmont Stakes that still resonates - and was celebrated mightily this week.
Saturday, at Belmont Park, there was another first involving a woman, that being Jena Antonucci who became the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race when Arcangelo beat defending 2-year-old champion Forte by 1 1/2 lengths in the 155th Belmont Stakes before an announced crowd of 48,089.
ELMONT, N.Y. – When owner Jon Ebbert bought a son of Arrogate at the 2021 Keeneland yearling sale, he said his vision was to have a horse for the 2024 Breeders’ Cup. How he would get there and would he even be good enough to get there were unknowns.
That son of Arrogate, now named Arcangelo, seems to have charted a different path for himself, Ebbert, and trainer Jena Antonucci. In his fourth career start – and his stakes debut – Arcangelo won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes, a victory that literally helped pay his way to Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Instead of smoke, there were mostly blue skies and a yellow -- not blood orange -- sun high above Belmont Park Friday.
One day after training was canceled here and in Saratoga due to do poor air quality stemming from the Canadian wildfires, the air quality index -- which has now replaced legs as the first thing horsemen check in the morning -- dropped to the moderate level on Long Island, more than acceptable for normal training operations to resume.
By 11:30 a.m., the air quality index here, was in the good range.
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 15:08
Belmont Stakes picks and analysis from Daily Racing Form handicappers across the United States.
2023 Belmont Stakes (Race 13)
Distance: 1 1/2 miles
Track: Belmont Park
Post time: 7:02 p.m. Eastern
TV: FOX
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 12:40
ELMONT, N.Y. – Despite the unexpected glitch of missing a day of training Thursday due to poor air quality in the local area, the serious work had already been done preparing the nine members of this year’s Belmont Stakes field for the main event on Saturday.
With that in mind, it’s time to take one final look at just how those preparations have gone the previous two weeks. The majority of the training took place locally, but this report also includes the Brad Cox-trained trio of Belmont starters, who did all their major work at Churchill Downs.
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 11:35
ELMONT, N.Y. – Forte didn’t make the starting gate for either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness, but the results of those races may have only served to validate the credentials of the 2-year-old champion.
Mage won the Kentucky Derby. Forte beat him twice this spring. National Treasure and Blazing Sevens ran one-two, heads apart, in the Preakness. Forte beat them both in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Horsemen with runners in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes did not seem overly upset they were unable to train their horses Thursday at Belmont Park.
Due to the poor air quality conditions in the New York area stemming from the wind-blown smoke from the Canadian wildfires, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday evening that it had canceled training for Thursday at both Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Technically, Angel of Empire will be getting a change of equipment when trainer Brad Cox adds blinkers for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
However, the blinkers are not totally new to Angel of Empire, who has frequently trained in them throughout his career, but never raced in them.
“I pretty much work everything in blinkers when they’re young,” Cox said.
But when Cox started running Angel of Empire a distance of ground, “I thought I’d just leave them off, let him relax, and it worked out well.”