Videos tagged with "belmont stakes"

Belmont Stakes 2012: What a Horse Needs to Win [03:06]
The Belmont Stakes is this weekend and I'll Have Another is running for the Triple Crown. Former jockey Richard Migliore joins WSJ Sports editors Geoff Foste...

Secretariat Breaks Record - Belmont Stakes '73 [02:57]
Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes 1973 Created/edited by Abby Garrett I don't own any of the media used, just the editing. Music from Braveheart by James Horner.

Instant Classic: 1978 Belmont Stakes [00:35]
Racing Hall of Fame jockey Steve Cauthen recalls Affirmed's 1978 sweep of the Triple Crown, which Cauthen said included the "greatest race I've ever been involved with." Cauthen was on hand at Belmont Park on Saturday signing autographs alongside fellow Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velasquez, the rider of Affirmed's 1978 Triple Crown rival Alydar.

1979 Belmont Stakes: CBS Broadcast [18:03]
History and the long, demanding stretch at Belmont Park had caught up with Spectacular Bid. With a short distance remaining in the Belmont Stakes last Saturday, he was leading, seemingly drawing away from his seven rivals. He was four lengths in front of 12-to-1 shot General Assembly and looking just as strong as he had while rattling off victories in 12 consecutive stakes races. Just 660 yards to go to the third Triple Crown in three years. But then Spectacular Bid began to behave like a very fat man trying to run up a very steep hill. In the stretch curve he drifted out from the rail. His lead diminished. He was having trouble getting air into his lungs, and his legs seemed to desert him. With a furlong to go, he was a beaten horse, seconds away from joining the company of Pensive, Tim Tam, Carry Back, Northern Dancer, Kauai King, Forward Pass, Majestic Prince and Canonero II—the band of Derby and Preakness winners that came a cropper at Belmont. The winner, Coastal, was one of those lightly raced colts that periodically come out of old-line barns to waste Belmont pretenders. The steady Golden Act, spear-carrier-in-chief in the classic races, was second. Bid, who had been described by his trainer, Bud Delp, as the greatest horse ever to look through a bridle, was looking at the nearly four lengths of track between his nose and Coastal's as he finished third. Did Bid's young jockey, Ron Franklin, ride the horse badly? Some of the jocks in the race and those watching from ...

TVG Inside Track for the 2012 Travers [02:29]
TVG takes a look at the field for the 2012 Travers in this Inside Track
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