Jon Stettin’s Blog
The first few days at Saratoga are always exciting. Most of us wait for the meet all year long and when it comes, we are more than ready no pun intended. The first stake of the meet, the two-year-old filly...
We are awfully close to Saratoga and Del Mar, two of the most popular meets of the year. I am sure there will be lots of opportunities on both the east and west coasts. While I am the first to...
The Wild Applause will be run Saturday at Belmont. I don’t recall a better grass family from back in the day, Glowing Honor, Glowing Tribute, Hero’s Honor. Those Rokeby Stable horses from that line were lawn mowers. Wild Applause fit...
The Triple Crown races are in the books, and it is already Haskell preview day at Monmouth. Moving right along as they say. Before we get to Monmouth let me say this about The Belmont. They came home slow. Nobody...
I guess being from New York and attending more Belmont’s than I can even remember the race has always been special to me. The fact I have made some scores on the race probably doesn’t hurt either. The Test of...
Eight three-year-olds are scheduled to race a mile and an eighth on the grass at Belmont in The Pennine Ridge. As we often see in these grass races, especially in New York the pace of lack of is a mystery....
On Saturday at Belmont Park they will run The Soaring Softly at 7 furlongs on the turf. The field is small, but I think I found a spot I like. Lady Beth moves to the grass from a synthetic (Tapeta)...
Saturday they will run the second jewel of The Triple Crown. The Preakness at a mile and three sixteenths is always an interesting race and there have been some classics. Afleet Alex almost falling and still winning comes to mind....
Saturday Plays at Belmont Saturday at Belmont they will run the Man O War, a turf marathon, The Peter Pan, a nice three-year old stake, and The Runhappy a sprint. Something for everybody as they say. For me the Man...