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Jun
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Belmont Notes: Post position update
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The Biz / 11 years
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Belmont Stakes post positions are drawn, and everyone, more or less, is happy, or at least, happyish.
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Virginia is for (Belmont) lovers
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Virginia may be for lovers, and I may love New York, but when it comes to the Belmont, there’s more connecting those tourism campaigns than you might think.
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Belmont Notes: MJC viewing parties, Keen Ice, Tale of Verve
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The Biz / 11 years
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In today’s Belmont notes: Maryland Jockey Club parties, a final move for Keen Ice, and Tale of Verve is “out to win it,”
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RaceBrief for June 9
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The Biz / 12 years
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Stake winners and syndromes, betting and top Midlantic-breds, in our weekend RaceBrief.
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Handicappers’ Belmont Stakes selections
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The Biz / 12 years
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We asked our handicappers — including two Maryland Handicapping Series winners — for their Belmont Stakes selections. The question: Chrome or Strong?
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Jun
Jun
Belmont history: Affirmed and Lefty
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Doug McCoy / 12 years
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Steve Cauthen hit Affirmed left-handed and the horse surged to beat Alydar in the 1978 Belmont. But how did Cauthen come to have the whip in his left hand?
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Jun
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For Tonalist, little goes to plan – but it all works out
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Nick Hahn / 12 years
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Nothing’s gone to plan for Tonalist’s breeders. But he’ll enter the Belmont starting gate June 7 with a shot to deny California Chrome’s shot at history.
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“The Ice Box Syndrome” and other Belmont Stakes notes
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Frank Vespe / 12 years
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Closers don’t win the Belmont Stakes, and other Triple Crown notes and analysis.
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Horsemen take nuanced view of Triple Crown change
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Frank Vespe / 12 years
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Five Maryland horsemen who’ve run in the Triple Crown gave us five different, varying perspectives on lengthening the time from Derby to Preakness to Belmont..
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Belmont Stakes: Post positions, plus the day’s Midlantic-breds
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The Biz / 12 years
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Triple Crown seeker California Chrome drew the two-hole (and 3-5 odds) for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes; plus, Midlantic-breds in the day’s stakes.