By Maxwell Ogden
Palace Malice (click here) has won the 2013 Belmont Stakes after outlasting the field at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Mike Smith guided the underdog to a contested victory, as the 145th edition of this race was all but equal entering the final turn, when Palace Malice put on the jets and separated from the pack....
Placing in Belmont shows top three year colts of 2013.
First Place - No. 12 - Palace Malice - Jockey Mike Smith - Trainer Todd Pletcher
Second Place (Preakness) - No. 7 - Oxbow - Gary Stevens - D. Wayne Lukas
Third Place (Kentucky Derby) - No. 5 - Orb - Joel Rosario - Shug McGaughey
Who will be "Horse of the Year?"
June 6, 2013
By Bob Ehalt
...In Unlimited Budget, (click here) you have the perfect storm of an owner willing to gamble, a year in which the top 3-year-old fillies might be as good as the boys, and a female jockey whom the owner called a good fit for his horse not because she's a good female rider but because she's simply a "good jockey."...
