Tickets and hospitality offerings for the first Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at the new Belmont Park will go on sale beginning Saturday, Sept. 19, according to a New York Racing Association release on Tuesday. Tickets can be purchased at noon via www.BelmontStakes.com/tickets. Highlighted by the 159th running of the GI Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June

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The idea for a new Belmont Park had floated around for years, but the trial balloons never reached escape velocity to achieve enough altitude to fly in earnest. After the New York Racing Association (NYRA) went broke from years of declining revenues and poor management, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2006, New York's

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The GI Belmont Stakes may not return to its 1 1/2-mile distance when it returns to its traditional home at the newly reconstructed Belmont Park next June, according to a report in Daily Racing Form. New York Racing Association president and CEO Dave O'Rourke told DRF's Dave Grening the Classic race could instead be run

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Mike and Josh Pons, owners of Country Life Farm, having been shopping off short lists created by Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services John and Sandy Stuart, and their general manager Christy Holden for about a decade, so the brothers probably had plenty of confidence when they went to look at In It for the Gold (Speightstown) at

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The 87th summer season at Del Mar came to a close Monday evening. While final numbers for the meet weren't yet available, the final standings for jockeys, trainers, and owners were in, with Hall of Fame rider Joel Rosario, trainer Doug O'Neill, and owner Reddam Racing taking home the titles. In his first jockey title

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