7:17 PM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Sunshine Coast Race 7 No. 3 Seaway (Glen Colless) – $2.60 He’s been pretty stiff not have won his last two starts, but I’m extremely confident Chris Waller’s improving three-year-old colt Seaway will make amends for that and win the Sunshine Coast Guineas. All of this preparation the
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8:06 AM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Doomben Race 8 No.4 Prompt Response (Blake Shinn) – $6.50 After running in all the good fillies and mares races throughout the Autumn, winning the Emancipation in the process, Prompt Response returned to Brisbane for the second-straight year for a crack at the Dane Ripper and this, the
8:36 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Triple Crown winner Justify was calm while posing for thousands of fans who cheered and took pictures of horse racing’s newest superstar in 90-degree heat at Churchill Downs. A week after becoming the second Triple Crown champion in four years and 13th overall, the unbeaten chestnut colt
7:15 PM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Rosehill Race 1 No.4 Pedicel (Kerrin McEvoy) – $4.40 After looking the part at the trials, I was super keen on Pedicel at her debut and she did a wonderful job when saluting at Canterbury, where not everything went right for her, as she was out of her
11:15 PM ET Long shot Restoring Hope’s run in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes is being questioned by some competitors, who suggest the horse might have been used to block other horses from catching stablemate Justify on his way to the Triple Crown. Bob Baffert trains both Justify and Restoring Hope, which went off at 37-1 and
5:06 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Triple Crown winner Justify will get a well-deserved break and then race again this year, although no date or location has been targeted yet after the colt came out of his Belmont Stakes victory in good condition. Justify’s Triple Crown victory Saturday was worth an additional $15
10:08 PM ET With his Triple Crown victory Saturday, Justify became the most valuable horse in racing history. Before the Belmont Stakes, the horse’s owners, primarily WinStar Farm, China Horse Club & SF Racing, negotiated a deal with Coolmore to sell the horse’s breeding rights for $60 million. The Triple Crown was worth an additional
9:30 PM ET Elmont, N.Y. — The noise is what I’ll remember most. Other than the horse, of course. There were 13 races at Belmont Park on Saturday, but only one reason why it was a sellout crowd of 90,000 people. Justify was bidding to become just the 13th horse to win the Triple Crown.
9:50 PM ET Elmont, N.Y. — An hour after his historic win aboard Justify, jockey Mike Smith sat in front of a crowded room of reporters, describing what it was like for an “old man” of 52 to finally win a Triple Crown. To his right sat trainer Bob Baffert, whose eyes were transfixed on
12:44 AM ET ESPN News Services Justify defied all the odds on his way to achieving Triple Crown immortality. The late bloomer won the 150th Belmont Stakes in New York by 1¾ lengths on Saturday, leading all the way to give the sport its 13th Triple Crown champion. American Pharoah ended a 37-year drought in