Saratoga-area trainer Chad Brown ready for ‘unique opportunity’ of upstate Belmont Stakes
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Chad Brown doesn’t have to take his colt, Sierra Leone, to the Belmont Stakes this year because the Belmont Stakes is coming to them. “I grew up in the neighborhood,” said Brown, 45, a native of Mechanicville, a town of just over 5,000 people 16 miles southeast of Saratoga Springs. He told […]
D. Wayne Lukas riding high heading into Belmont Stakes
SARATOGA SPRINGS — D. Wayne Lukas is known in horse racing circles as “The Coach,” but just after sunrise Wednesday morning ahead of the 156th Belmont Stakes and its first running at Saratoga Race Course, the Hall of Fame trainer was more like a king. To find him, visitors had to traverse the long, dusty […]
New Belmont Park renderings show modernized venue
It will be more than two years before horse racing fans hear a trumpeter’s “Call to the Post,” but the architectural layout of the redesigned Belmont Park was unveiled Monday. At first glance, it might be worth the wait. The New York Horse Racing Association has released an artist’s rendering of what Belmont Park will […]