SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – At 7:30 Sunday morning, Cherie DeVaux stood in front of a couple dozen media types and talked all things Golden Tempo (Curlin). There was plenty to say. Moments before, she had brought the big horse out of his stall and Golden Tempo stood in the shedrow, gawked at the horse racing [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Just about a half hour after the fact, Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez gave 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Golden Tempo (Curlin) his flowers. At the age of 54, Johnny V. seems to get better as he ages and when he sees a performance worthy of some praise, he'll [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It was suggested to trainer Brad Cox that Commandment (Into Mischief) was a forgotten horse coming into the 158th running of the $2-million GI Belmont Stakes. “Not with me,” Cox said at his office on the Oklahoma Training Track. Then a pause and a smile. “But I know what you mean,” [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Michael McCarthy would like nothing more than to have the wildly popular Journalism (Curlin) return to Saratoga Race Course this summer. “It would be awfully nice if he could,” McCarthy said just outside Journalism's stall at the Oklahoma Training Track Thursday morning. “Saratoga, as I keep on saying, is a [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When it's a big race day, you'll find Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Saturday is a big race day at Saratoga Race Course. Seven graded stakes–six of them Grade Is worth $5.9 million. Of course, Baffert is going to be here. He doesn't have a horse in the $2-million GI [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – By the time 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Chief Wallabee (Constitution) got to the races, Renegade (Into Mischief), the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday's GI Belmont Stakes, already had three starts on his resume. When the Chief won that first career start back on Jan. 10, Hall of Fame trainer [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Post positions will be assigned for the 158th running of the GI Belmont Stakes on Monday at Universal Preservation Hall. The morning line for the final leg of the 2026 Triple Crown will also be announced. Even though he finished second to Golden Tempo (Curlin) in the GI Kentucky Derby, Hall [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.–Flash back to the fall of 2025. By then, trainer Chad Brown had a good idea that the new batch of young horses that had come into his powerhouse barn had promise. Plenty of promise. The future, he thought, was very good indeed. “I knew we had a really good group of dirt [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After the pictures were taken in the winner's circle and after he did his interview with Acacia Clement for the Saratoga Live broadcast, trainer Tom Amoss did a little dance before heading out. Happy? Oh, yeah, Amoss was all of that. He had just watched his 2-year-old colt Oscar's Hope (Twirling [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Early Sunday afternoon, Mike Repole wasn't sure if he had slept or not Saturday night. “I might have taken a nap from 2 (a.m.) to 4,” Repole said in the Saratoga box seat area. “I am running high on adrenaline right now.” Sixteen hours earlier, Repole, with 40 friends and family–including [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There is no time for real celebration and there certainly isn't time to feel sorry for oneself. In horse racing, the game just keeps going on. Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher had first-hand experience of that Sunday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course. Just before 2 p.m., he was elated and [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.–After the last two starts, there may be those who gave up on White Abarrio (Race Day). Saffie Joseph Jr., the trainer of the 6-year-old gray horse, isn't one of them. White Abarrio reappears at Saratoga on Sunday in the $1 million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, a 1 1/4-mile test that has [...]