I have been DYING for this shot for YEARS. It might not be as good as some other greats in our industry, but I am ungodly proud of this photograph.
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Captured with a Canon 7D Mark ii, 24-70 2.8, 1/30 f/8 ISO 200.
There is some seriously good racing coming up this week for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. The Met Mile has a stacked field, but who isn't waiting to see just how good Crude Velocity is?
Here's the field for next Sunday's $500,000 Matt Winn (G3) at @ChurchillDowns:
Stop the Car
Potente
Pavlovian
Our Moneyman
Corona de Oro
Taptastic
Further Ado
Steel Imperium
Hall of Fame trainer Baffert breezed Nysos, Crude Velocity and Imagination on Sunday morning at Churchill Downs ahead of their starts on Belmont Stakes day Saturday.
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📸: Eclipse Sportswire - edited composite
Napoleon Solo sold. Will remain with trainer Chad Summers. Still pointed to Haskell. Plans are to race in 2027 and retire to Lane's End at end of career. https://t.co/7jtgCfSkdE
Chip Honcho and Potente will skip the Belmont Stakes, per trainers Steve Asmussen and Bob Baffert. No confirmed next start for Chip. Potente runs in Matt Winn on June 7. Baffert said Crude Velocity to Woody Stephens. He also runs Brant there.
Now named “Poweline”, my favorite Flightline of all last year and arguably my favorite colt in general, is looking like an absolute FREAK SHOW! 😱
Between this guy and 10.5 millions dollar Zedan, Flightline is looking like he will have a very strong year.
🚨Five of the world’s elite dirt horses have already expressed interest in running in this year’s Stephen Foster on Saturday, June 27:
Sovereignty
Baeza
Magnitude
White Abarrio
Skippylongstocking