The $1 million NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes July 19 is the marquee race at Monmouth Park and drew a strong cast of runners expected to compete in the 1 1/8-mile Grade 1 stakes for 3-year-olds.
If you watch the replay of the sixth race at Saratoga Race Course from July 11 (see below), you’ll start to hear some shrieking shortly after the field of 2-year-old maidens hit the quarter pole. The shrieking intensified as No. 3 Dr.
The $485,000 Grade 1 Dunkin' Diana Stakes drew some of the best turf fillies and mares the division has to offer, and down the stretch it was Excellent Truth and She Feels Pretty that put on a show July 12 at Saratoga Race Course.
The Jockey Club announced July 10 the speakers for its 73rd Annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, which will be held July 31 at the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at 10 a.m. ET, following a networking breakfast that begins at 9 a.m. It will also be livestreamed on The Jockey Club’s website at jockeyclub.com.
There are few certainties in life or in the sport of horse racing. But just as you could count on the changing of the seasons, you could count on Jonathan Sheppard sending out winners by the dozen, year after year, in tests of both pure speed and dexterity over jumps. He retired from training in the U.S. before the 2021 season, maintained a small stable in Ireland for a short while, and passed away at 82 on Aug. 27, 2023.
