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Let’s hope this heat really does abate by Saturday  Don’t like the thought of these young colts going a mile and a half in the sweltering heat. 

Heat KO’s Belmont’s June 9 Card
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/63483/heat-kos-belmonts-june-9-card

Racing for June 9 has been canceled at Belmont Park due to potentially record-breaking temperatures, it was announced by New York Racing Association officials around 9:30 a.m. At 10 a.m., following training hours, it was 87 degrees

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Animal Kingdom made 2-1 favorite in Belmont Stakes
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/horseracing/5851432-417/animal-kingdom-made-2-1-favorite-in-belmont-stakes.html

NEW YORK — The 1-2 finishers in the Kentucky Derby are 1-2 on the morning line for the Belmont Stakes.

Derby winner Animal Kingdom was made the 2-1 favorite for the final leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, with Derby runner-up Nehro the second choice at 4-1.

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Interesting  Didn’t know he lost a shoe in the Preakness…

Mucho Macho Man gets new shoes, jockey for Belmont Stakes
http://www.nola.com/horseracing/index.ssf/2011/06/mucho_macho_man_gets_new_shoes.html

ELMONT, N.Y. – Mucho Macho Man, who lost his right front shoe at the start of the Louisiana Derby and his left front shoe in the Preakness, will be wearing fitted, synthetic shoes in the Belmont Stakes.

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Having been to Sienna and seen this race, I can attest that it is a spectacular horse race!

Horse Racing Picture – Italy Photo – National Geographic Photo of the Day
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/jockeys-piazza-del-campo/

One year of hopes, no more than ninety seconds to make the dream come true. Ten jockeys, dressed in the representative colors of their contrade, riding bareback on magnificent horses, while citizens on the bleachers scream with pride

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Colonial Downs celebrates opener – Virginia Gazette
http://www.vagazette.com/articles/2011/06/08/sports/doc4dee70df24b5b920210510.txt

NEW KENT — Thoroughbred horse racing has returned to Colonial Downs for the summer. The track will kick off its 15th season on Wednesday, June 8, with an evening of nine races and a field of 122 horses.

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Jacob Pincus and the Belmont trophy with Finian on top. 

The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory | The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/matchless_jew_belmonts_jewish_backstory

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Wow. Pin us, trainer of the first Belmont winner, Finian, sounds like a real class act  we could use more men like him in this modern racing game  

The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory | The Jewish Week

http://www.jewishweek.com/news/short_takes/matchless_jew_belmonts_jewish_backstory

The owner of the horse — will it be Derby-winner Animal Kingdom, Preakness-winner Shackleford or a 30-to-1 longshot? — who takes this year’s Belmont Stakes on Saturday will hoist an ornate trophy high. Made by Tiffany from glittering silver, the bowl and cover are topped with detailed oak leaves and a proud figure of a thoroughbred named Fenian.

The Jewish trainer Jacob Pincus saddled Fenian for the Belmont, and the resulting victory helped make Pincus the leading trainer of 1869. “Leading trainer” was just one in a series of Pincus’ many accomplishments. He also trained Iroquois, the first American-bred winner of England’s Epsom Derby in 1881. With that triumph, Pincus and Iroquois proved to the haughty British and French racing worlds that American thoroughbreds had arrived.

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Yes!  I’m getting really tired of the clichės!

Belmont Stakes lexicon, BANNED edition: Let’s can the stamina talk
http://blog-beb.thoroughbredtimes.com/2011/06/belmont-stakes-lexicon-banned-edition.html

I had so much fun in spring 2010  writing a paean to the terms I wanted banished from the Kentucky Derby lexicon (e.g. “weak crop”) that I thought I’d do the same for the Belmont Stakes this year.
If spring is when a young man’s fancy turns to love, then Belmont Stakes week is when an old Turf writer’s curmudgeonly ways turns to disdain, and Ray Kerrison of the New York Post began the litany on Monday by describing the third jewel of American Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown as “the last surviving pillar of the days when horses were bred and prized for stamina.”
Now banned from my Belmont Stakes lexicon (unless used in a quote by someone I’m interviewing for a story) is the word stamina.

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I say this is an idea whose time has come!

Equipment change could make Lasix obsolete – Daily Racing Form
http://www.drf.com/news/bitless-bridles-could-be-gift-horses

Illegal medication and what to do about it is buzzing again, with the arrival of hot weather.

Racing Commissioners International want furosemide (aka Salix or Lasix) on race day banned in five years.

Rep. Ed Whitfield from Kentucky and Sen. Tom Udall from New Mexico have introduced federal legislation to end the use of performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing.

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Evening races to conclude 2011 Breeders’ Cup
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/06/2253917/evening-races-to-conclude-2011.html

This year’s 28th Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs will conclude each of the two days of competition with night races. The 14-race event will be conducted on Friday and Saturday, November 4-5

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