When it was all said and done, a son of Birdstone did win the Belmont Stakes. But it wasn’t the son that everyone expected. It wasn’t Mine That Bird that took home the top prize, but his half-brother, Summer Bird. How did Summer Bird do it? By peaking at the right time and ...
NEW YORK -- Summer Bird, not Mine That Bird, emerges from an exciting home stretch as the Belmont Stakes winner, denying jockey Calvin Borel's a personal Triple Crown. Kent Desormeaux rides the winning mount. Mine That Bird, with Borel aboard, came from last to take the lead right before the final turn. ...
Flamboyant financier Leonard W. Jerome and well-heeled friends, including banker August Belmont Sr., built a racetrack in the Bronx that opened on Sept. 25, 1866. The crowd at Jerome Park, named for its founder, included Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and members of New York’s fashionable society. It was the first track ...
The Belmont Stakes has become a tricky race to handicap lately for several reasons. Favorites have triumphed nearly 43 percent in the past 140 races, but during the last 30 years only six scored – 23 percent. And a dozen winners paid double-digits -- 40 percent. By now most Triple Crown fans know that horses rallying ...
BetUS online racebook fans have finally reached the end of the Triple Crown road. The Test of Champions, the 1 ½ mile Belmont Stakes, is set to run this Saturday with Mine That Bird, the Kentucky Derby winner, a huge favorite in the Racebook. At odds of -150, Mine That Bird figures to be one ...
Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness Stakes runner up Mine That Bird will be making his third start in five weeks and is likely going to go off as the sold favorite in the 141st running of the Belmont Stakes. Is taking the gelding at a short price for the birds? In the past ten years, only Afleet ...
Dubbed as the Calvin Crown since Mine That Bird’s jockey, Calvin Borel, has a chance to win all three of the 2009 Triple Crown races on two different horses, this Saturday’s Belmont Stakes figures to be an ultra-competitive affair. The Belmont is called the Test of Champions for a reason. ...
As always, Triple Crown days offer one of the best Pick 4s that any BetUS online racebook fan is likely to wager. Even though the Belmont Stakes, the final jewel of the Triple Crown, is more a Calvin Crown than a Triple Crown, the Pick 4 sequence figures to pay handsomely should horseplayers hit it. I’ve constructed ...
Belmont Stakes day is always a good day for BetUS online racebook fans to find overlaid wagers. It isn’t often that the overlays are found in the main event, the Belmont Stakes, but that’s okay because most horseplayers know that playing the Belmont Stakes is only part of the reason that Belmont Stakes day ...
Mine That Bird, which came on like a locomotive to win the Kentucky Derby in May, proved that was no fluke with a monster finish at Pimlico, narrowly missing out to the fast filly, Rachel Alexandra. With that filly out of this race, some figure the path has been cleared for jockey Calvin Borel to ...