Andrew Rosen’s Skims will look to make the grade June 9 in the $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes (G2T), a nine-furlong inner turf test for sophomore fillies on opening day of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.

I’ve developed a measure I call Speed Above Replacement Jockey (SARJ). SARJ estimates how much faster (or slower) horses run under a certain jockey compared with how they would run under an average jockey.

A visual look at the field for the 2022 Belmont Stakes in post position order.

The event brought together more than 165 Thoroughbreds from 15 states to compete in a variety of disciplines, including dressage, hunter, jumper, Western, and pleasure classes.

When the Belmont Stakes (G1) is renewed June 11, it will mark the second consecutive year that not a single 3-year-old will have run in all three legs of the Triple Crown. Creative Minister, however, has maintained a Triple Crown-like schedule.

Mike Repole has always said that a Belmont Stakes (G1) victory would mean a lot to him and as special as that victory would be, it would mean even more if one of his two runners this year were to win the 1 1/2-mile test June 11 at Belmont Park.

I’ve developed a measure I call Speed Above Replacement Jockey (SARJ). SARJ estimates how much faster (or slower) horses run under a certain jockey compared with how they would run under an average jockey.

While jockey Sonny Leon entered the Kentucky Derby (G1) starting gate without a previous graded stakes win, a new statistical approach to rating jockeys suggested the Ohio-based rider would not be in over his head.

A letter denying a mortality insurance claim following the death of Laoban which says the stallion died because a veterinarian gave him a risky compounded injection of four different medications has been made public in court documents.

Eric Reed discusses a shortage of pace in the Belmont Stakes (G1) and his training of Rich Strike leading into the 1 1/2-mile race.