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There will be no Triple Crown winner this year. I’ll Have Another, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, on whom all eyes were trained for a possible win in the Belmont Stakes, injured a tendon and has been retired.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/8/12
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In the 34 years since Affirmed swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes to become the 11th Triple Crown winner in thoroughbred horseracing history, 11 horses have won the first two legs only to fall short at Belmont.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/4/12
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Everybody loves horses, right? That’s a fair statement. They are things of grace and beauty. They have been the subject of some epic movies.
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5/31/12
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Jockey Cornelio Velasquez was cool, calm and collected during the first race of 2012 at Belmont Park last Friday afternoon, waiting for just the right moment to ask Modern Child to make a move in the one-mile dirt event that kicked off the 56-day spring/summer meet.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/1/12
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Bettors and trainers are preparing for a new season at Belmont Park, which is marked by the bustling track’s Opening Day. Belmont’s Spring/Summer Meet, which has long been a popular, family-friendly series of events, begins Friday.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/25/12
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Richard L. Hamilton, a former steward and longtime racing official for The New York Racing Association, Inc., working at Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course, died on April 18 at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, after suffering a heart attack. He was 76 years old.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/19/12
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An audit report released last week by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli suggests that the New York Racing Association — the state’s governing body of thoroughbred horse racing, which includes Belmont Park and the Aqueduct Racetrack — has been gambling on its financial future.
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By Jackie Nash, jnash@liherald.com
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1/30/12
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Once small investors in a large thoroughbred racehorse partnership, Vince Roth and Daniel Zanatta used their experience and knowledge to create a growing stable that’s both economical and fun.
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Tony Bellissimo
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8/10/11
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The winter of 2010 was very long and stormy with a lot of snow. Spring is now here, and there is nothing like the early morning sun and to watch and listen to thoroughbreds exercising on the racetrack at Belmont Park.
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By Michael Fenrich
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5/3/11
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The New York Racing Association, Inc. recently announced several upgrades made to Belmont Park’s Belmont Café simulcasting center, which will be in place by Saturday, April 9, on Resorts World New York Casino Wood Memorial Day, Aqueduct Racetrack’s $1 million premier race, which has been a decades-long staple in Queens.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/5/11
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