Saratoga Springs, N.Y., plays host to thousands and thousands of racing fans every summer and many of those come back again and again every year for the annual summer race meet at Saratoga Race Course. Never before, however, has the town and the racetrack hosted a June meet centered around the running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets.
Tom Pedulla offers five takeaways from a big holiday weekend of racing, including a promising debut by a half-brother to retired superstar Flightline and developments surrounding the highly anticipated Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets June 8 at Saratoga Race Course.
When Julie Krone was riding, it was always on to the next race, on to the next day, on to the next track, allowing precious little time to celebrate her accomplishments, no matter how unprecedented they were. “When you are younger,” Krone said in 2014, “you are so in the moment.” Krone is now 60 years old, a wife to BloodHorse columnist Jay Hovdey, and a caring mother to Lorelei. She has had time to put perspective on it all. “I went through all these different phases. Now I look at it that it’s really cool. I really did that,” she said.
