J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the 157th Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.

Chris Griffin & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Belmont Stakes and the Met Mile at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga.

Like a human’s comfort food, a healthy snack has helped Baeza feel right at home during his preparations for the June 7 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

Maryland’s Fair Hill Training Center will replace its seven-furlong Tapeta Footings track this summer, an upgrade from one of the synthetic surface’s earliest installations to the company’s newest iteration Tapeta 13.

Eric Reed, best known as the trainer of 2022 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Rich Strike, has been suspended 15 days and fined $2,500 for a gabapentin positive found in the filly She’s a Saint.

Four days before the Metropolitan Handicap (G1), trainer Doug O’Neill admitted to feeling some nerves, though not for the usual horse trainer reasons.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert believes pace will be a determining factor in the chances for his trainee, Rodriguez, in the June 7 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

The 22nd New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show Presented by Heider Family Stables raised more than $184,000.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 261 selected yearlings for The July Sale, to be held July 8 at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. ET.

Love Cervere, winner of the Take The A Train Stakes, will take on a field of nine in the $175,000 Soaring Softy Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga June 8. Among the entries for the 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint is the runner-up in the Take The A Train—Hey Bertie.