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After a thrilling five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival last week at Saratoga where it seemed like one equine star after another authored a memorable performance, the focus shifts back to a normal early-summer routine of action at tracks around the country.

Horse racing fans flocked to historic Saratoga Race Course during the final Belmont Stakes Racing Festival held at the track before relocating back to host Belmont Park in 2027. Enjoy these photos from our colleagues at Eclipse Sportswire taken on Friday, June 4, and Saturday, June 5.

Five weeks ago, members of trainer Cherie DeVaux’s family piled into a white passenger van and another vehicle and traveled hundreds of miles from New York to Kentucky to cheer on Cherie’s top 3-year-old Golden Tempo to Kentucky Derby glory.

For 173 years, horses have been jumping around the Upperville showgrounds in Virginia. That’s 21 years longer than the Kentucky Derby has existed.

Despite its long history, this year Upperville is embracing something entirely new. Sixty Thoroughbreds participated in the inaugural $25,000 Upperville Thoroughbred Hunter Derby. For a breed most commonly associated with racetracks rather than show rings, the event felt like the start of something much bigger than a horse show.

It would make for an extremely difficult trivia question: What is the connection between rappers Lil Wayne, Lil Yachty, and Rauw Alejandro, as well as Leonardo da Vinci?

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