Tag: Arcangelo

Arcangelo Follows Belmont Win with Travers Victory

August 27, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.
Arcangelo wins the Travers. Photo by Joe Labozzetta.

Arcangelo proved that his Belmont win wasn’t a fluke by showing his mettle at the Travers after an 11-week break. The seven-horse field included the top three-year-old colts — Disarm finished second, Tapit Trice finished third, Forte was fourth, Preakness winner National Treasure was fifth, and Kentucky Derby victor Mage finished last of seven. Many […]

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Arcangelo Wins the Belmont

June 10, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.
Arcangelo and Javier Castellano win the Belmont Stakes

Fifty years after Secretariat’s blazing run in the Belmont Stakes, we don’t have a Triple Crown winner, but we do have a few firsts. Most impressive is that Arcangel’s trainer, Jena Antonucci, became the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race (the race series has been run since 1919), and his jockey, four-time […]

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