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Newest Belmont Park Offers a View to Racing’s Future

Belmont Park first opened in 1905.

As the grandstand began to crumble in the 1960s, it was closed in 1963. Downstate racing shifted solely to Aqueduct until 1968.

That’s when what was known then as the New Belmont Park was unveiled, just a few months after the opening of the New Madison Square Garden atop Penn Station.

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2024 Blue Grass Stakes Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses

Every day of the year is part of Kentucky Derby season for horse racing fans in the Bluegrass State, but anticipation for the sport’s biggest event really picks up each spring when Keeneland Race Course in Lexington kicks off its April meet with an opening weekend highlighted by the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.

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2024 Kentucky Derby Trail: Three Heating Up, Three Cooling Down for April 2

This feature provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Triple Crown trail and three horses whose chances for the 2024 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve are not quite as strong as they were a few weeks ago.

In this seventh edition of this blog for the 2024 run for the roses, the focus is on the key Derby prep races from last weekend on the Triple Crown trail.

THREE HEATING UP

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2024 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles: UAE Derby Winner Forever Young

Welcome to 2024 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby schedule that offer qualifying points for the first leg in the series. The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 4, 2024, at Churchill Downs.

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Five Key Takeaways From Major Weekend on Path to 2024 Kentucky Derby

Tom Pedulla offers five takeaways from a huge weekend of racing, from the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby Presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa to the $1.5 million Arkansas Derby to races that brought together the world’s best at Meydan Racecourse halfway around the world in Dubai.

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