Horse Racing News

Thirteen 3-year-old fillies will seek to get lucky in the $750,0000 TVG Acorn Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard June 7 at Belmont Park in New York.

The 2014 renewal of the Knob Creek Manhattan Stakes June 7, a race with a strong collection of past winners, features three trainers -- Shug McGaughey, Bill Mott and Christophe Clement -- who have won the race three times each.

A sporting gesture put two-time champion Beholder on a plane to Belmont Park last week for the brewing rematch between her and 2013 Longines Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar in the $1 million Ogden Phipps June 7.

On his first day ever in New York, Steve Coburn, part owner and breeder of California Chrome, was interviewed by NBC and spent the rest of the time as a tourist.

California Chrome is the 3-5 early favorite to win the Belmont Stakes and become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown champion.

There is much more on the line Saturday for California Chrome than a shot at winning the Triple Crown

The owners of California Chrome signed their first major sponsorship deal for the horse ahead of his attempt to be the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years.

Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome walked the shedrow the morning of June 1 after logging his final breeze before the Belmont Stakes a day earlier in front of a crowd of adoring spectators at Belmont Park.

Old pro Clubhouse Ride slipped through along the inside and outfought odds-on favorite Fury Kapcori in the final furlong to register a gutty repeat win in the $200,000 Californian Stakes May 31 at Santa Anita Park.

Kentucky shipper Room Service, the only grade I winner in the field, overpowered the leaders in the drive for the wire to tally impressively in the $350,000 American Oaks May 31 on the Santa Anita Park turf.