Saturday, June 9, 2012

Union rags

  • (AP) NEW YORK - Union Rags nipped Paynter at the wire in a photo finish Saturday to win the Belmont Stake, beating a field without Triple Crown hopeful Ill Have Another, who was retired with an injury the day before.
  • (CBS News)
  • Union Rags picked up where Ill Have Another left off coming from behind to catch a Bob Baffert-trained horse at the finish in a Triple Crown race. In Saturdays Belmont Stakes, it was even a photo finish.
  • (NPR News)
  • NEW YORK -- Union Rags picked up where Ill Have Another left off -- coming from behind to catch a Bob Baffert-trained horse at the finish in a Triple Crown race. In Saturdays Belmont Stakes, it was even a photo finish.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • ELMONT, N.Y. — While I'll Have Another's trip to the winner's circle came in a retirement ceremony at Belmont Park late Saturday afternoon, Union Rags made the journey there after a thrilling stretch run to win the Belmont Stakes.
  • (Washington Times)
  • ELMONT, N.Y. — Waiting … waiting … waiting. Riding Union Rags down the Belmont Park stretch in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, jockey John Velazquez was looking for running room.
  • (nola.com)
  • ELMONT, N.Y. — The 144th running of the Belmont Stakes was supposed to be about history, about Ill Have Anothers determined assault on a feat achieved by 11 horses.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • Going into the Kentucky Derby, trainer Michael Matz believed he had a horse capable of sweeping the Triple Crown. He had to wait until Saturday for Union Rags to validate his opinion.
  • (Newsday)
  • NEW YORK -- Union Rags nipped Paynter in a photo finish to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, beating a field without U.S. Triple Crown hopeful Ill Have Another who was retired with an injury.
  • (AZCentral.com)
  • ELMONT, N.Y. -- Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth were alternately looking at the small monitor to their right and down the long Belmont Park stretch beyond the finish line to their left. The colt that had been raised at Point Lookout, Pa.
  • (Sacramento Bee)
  • ELMONT, N.Y.— It wasn't a horse race at all. What it was, was a study in redemption a settling of old debts and even older pain for the trainer, the owner and, in no small matter, the horse himself.
  • (NJ.com)

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