Jayson Werth enjoyed a 15-year career in major league baseball, becoming a World Series champion with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008 and a MLB All-Star the following year. Such accomplishments would seem difficult to top, but Werth says he has found something to match those highlights.
He came, like the fog in Carl Sandburg’s famous poem, silently. For a time he lingered, just long enough for his presence to be acknowledged. And then, like the fog, he moved on, all too soon, leaving everyone to wonder what might have been.
Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from the 156th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and other major action that was part of an enormously successful Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
In a Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets sure to linger as a treasured memory for residents of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for generations to come, 17.70-1 longshot Dornoch pulled a stunning upset by fending off surging Mindframe by half a length Saturday before an electrified crowd at