Lazaro S. Barrera

 One of the greatest races ever run was contested on the biggest of possible stages. The one-and-a-half miles of the Belmont Stakes is often a te...

Chelios makes his first stakes start in his fourth career race when he runs in Saturday’s Grade III, $100,000 Laz Barrera Stakes for 3-year-olds at se...

Maybe there is no secret to becoming a Triple Crown winner. Maybe all that’s required is simply being that good. Since 1978, a total of twelve horses ...

 Like a championship baseball team down five runs in the bottom of the ninth, like a tennis star down two sets to none, Affirmed looked to all th...

Count Fleet won the "street car" Kentucky Derby, for which no tickets could be sold to out-of-town spectators due to wartime travel restrictions. ~194...

The date was June 10, 1978. The United States was only days away from seeing the Son of Sam killer sentenced to 365 years in prison and in the world o...

The battle between the last winner of the Triple Crown, Affirmed and Alydar, who finished a close second in all three races, is in my opinion the top ...

June 14, 1976 by William Leggett Of the 11 horses entered in the Belmont on Thursday, only two—Charleston and Best Laid Plans—seemed to have enough ea...

June 19, 1978 They did it. The kid and the colt, Steve Cauthen and Affirmed, became the eleventh winners of the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred ...