﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>ATOM - Teresa Genaro Blog Feed</title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com" /><updated>2013-05-23T18:33:27Z</updated><author><name>Belmont Stakes</name></author><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA["He liked this big old track better": Shug McGaughey on Easy Goer, and Derbies past and present]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2013/5/15/he-liked-this-big-old-track-better-shug-mcgaughey-on-easy-goer,-and-derbies-past-and-present/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2013-05-15T21:02:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Amid media and meteorological storms, Shug McGaughey reflects on Easy Goer, the Phipps family, and winning the Kentucky Derby]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome Home]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2013/5/9/welcome-home/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2013-05-09T23:28:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Sunday afternoon, a bouquet of roses lay outside barn 20 on the Belmont backstretch, their colors nearly matching the red paint on the sign identifying the barn as the home of the Phipps Stable. The bouquet wasn’t quite as imposing as the blanket of roses that had been presented the day before, its meaning  less grandiose. It was not a celebration of victory; it was, rather, a welcome home.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[It's Still Belmont Day]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/6/13/its-still-belmont-day/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-06-13T21:48:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I’m not one of those New Yorkers who thinks that our city is the center of universe and that there’s nowhere better than here.  There’s a lot to love about New York; there’s also a lot that’s maddening, if not exasperating, if not infuriating.

There are certain New York things that I love with an almost unreasoning affection. I love coffee from the carts on the street. I love the Empire State Building when it’s red and green at Christmas time. I love walking o]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The First Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/6/8/the-first-belmont-stakes-at-belmont-park/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-06-09T04:55:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Though the first Belmont Stakes was run in 1867, it wasn’t run at Belmont Park until 1905.

The race was inaugurated at Jerome Park in what is now the Bronx, where it stayed until 1889, when it moved to Morris Park, also in the Bronx. Run there until Morris Park closed in 1904, the Belmont Stakes made its debut at its eponymous track on May 24, 1905.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Alydar and Affirmed in the Belmont: “It was great for the sport.”]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/6/1/alydar-and-affirmed-in-the-belmont-“it-was-great-for-the-sport.”/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-06-01T20:56:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[When Bodemeister finished second to I’ll Have Another in both the Derby and Preakness this year, hopes rose that we’d have a contemporary revival of the rivalries that have made so many Belmont Stakes famous. Secretariat/Sham, Affirmed/Alydar, Sunday Silence/Easy Goer, Real Quiet/Victory Gallop….I’ll Have Another/Bodemeister!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The Pursuit of the Triple Crown(s)]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/5/24/the-pursuit-of-the-triple-crowns/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-05-25T00:28:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[American racing fans have been waiting a long time for a Triple Crown winner. We have come tantalizingly close so many times; since Affirmed won the Triple Crown in 1978, 11 horses have come to Belmont with a Triple Crown on the line, and 11 have walked off the track defeated. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[New Faces in the Preakness]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/5/16/new-faces-in-the-preakness/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-05-16T21:18:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The week before the Kentucky Derby, I sat with Allen Jerkens in his golf cart on the Belmont backstretch. He had just returned from a winter in Florida; the chill of the Belmont morning had him attired in several layers. His face was ruddy from the Gulfstream Park sun.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[This is where it begins. ]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2012/5/3/this-is-where-it-begins./" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2012-05-03T21:55:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Louisville, Kentucky.

This is where it begins. Since 1875 racing fans have flocked to Churchill Downs to watch The Derby -- yes, it's in Kentucky, but we need no modifier. It's The Derby.

Back home in New York, we watch with keen eyes for the winner, for that horse that we hope will become the 12th Triple Crown winner, the first in 34 years, the horse will bring home one of sport's most elusive prizes on our home turf.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[So How Did We Do?]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/6/13/so-how-did-we-do/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-06-13T20:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How did this year's Belmont Stakes measure up to the trends of the last 20 years?  

So back a few weeks ago, we looked at some trends in the Belmont over the last 20 years.  How did the 2011 renewal live up to those trends? Let’s take a look.
Said trainer Dale Romans after the Preakness:   “You know, Woody Stephens said a long time ago, Belmont is a speed horse's race.
Perhaps. Perhaps. Not this year, though, to the disappointment of Shackleford’s many fans. 
That quotation didn’t influence many bettors, though, as he was sent off as the fourth choice, at odds of 6.30-1.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Turbulent Descent's Smooth Ride]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/6/9/turbulent-descents-smooth-ride/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-06-09T20:30:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The multiple Grade 1-winning filly Turbulent Descent comes to Belmont to try to add the TVG Acorn to her list of victories.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Talking Belmonts with Marshall Cassidy]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/6/7/talking-belmonts-with-marshall-cassidy/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-06-07T20:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A conversation with Marshall Cassidy, voice of the Belmont Stakes from 1979-1990.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Open Mind Hits the Big Time at Belmont]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/6/2/open-mind-hits-the-big-time-at-belmont/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-06-02T20:31:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Kiaran McLaughlin talks about his time with Open Mind, who ran her way into New York racing history.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[So What Can We Expect?]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/5/26/so-what-can-we-expect/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-05-26T20:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A look back at the last 20 years of the Belmont Stakes, so that we can look forward to Belmont 2011. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[John Velazquez does it again]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/5/16/john-velazquez-does-it-again/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-05-16T20:23:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[John Velazquez talks about winning two legs of the Triple Crown - on horses that he never expected to ride. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Paul Wagner and the Wood Memorial]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/5/1/paul-wagner-and-the-wood-memorial/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-05-02T01:22:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Paul Wagner, Academy Award-winning director of <i>Thoroughbred: Born To Run</i> talks to Teresa Genaro about the Wood Memorial and his pick in this year's Derby.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The more things change...]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2011/4/25/the-more-things-change.../" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2011-04-26T01:22:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Teresa Genaro looks back to April 2011, and ahead to this year's Belmont]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Our New York State of Mind]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/6/9/our-new-york-state-of-mind/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-06-09T13:07:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[At the end of the Triple Crown, a celebration of the New Yorkers that made it memorable.  ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Stately Victor's Local Connection]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/6/3/stately-victors-local-connection/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-06-03T12:29:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Brooklyn's Bud Perrone will make his first trip to the Belmont Stakes this year, to watch a horse with a special connection to him and his family.  ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Cicada in the Acorn]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/5/27/cicada-in-the-acorn/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-05-27T16:42:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Belmont Stakes day isn't only for 3-year-old colts; the fillies get their chance in the Acorn, and for them, it's only the beginning of the road to the Triple Crown.  A look at the amazing Cicada...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Bring on the Belmont]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/5/18/bring-on-the-belmont/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-05-18T14:22:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[No Triple Crown this year?  No problem.  Come to the Belmont, anyway--here's why.  ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[So close, but...]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/5/13/so-close,-but.../" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-05-14T03:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A look at the four horses who have lost the Triple Crown by a length or less.  ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The Pole]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/5/4/the-pole/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-05-05T03:15:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A monument to New York racing history resurfaces at Aqueduct.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Sir Barton, the first Triple Crown winner—sort of]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/4/30/sir-barton,-the-first-triple-crown-winner—sort-of/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-04-30T14:52:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Road to the Roses begins…at Saratoga in the summer?  At Churchill in the fall?  At the Breeders’ Cup? At the year’s first stakes race for three-year-olds?  The Road is long and varied, its stops dispersed and far-flung. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Back to Belmont]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2010/4/21/back-to-belmont/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2010-04-21T21:59:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[It’s been 179 days since I was last at Belmont Park.  It was New York Showcase Day, a sodden Saturday, as so many of them were last year at New York tracks. Haynesfield won the Empire Classic.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[An evening visit to Summer Bird]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/6/7/an-evening-visit-to-summer-bird/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-06-07T15:39:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A quick visit to the stall of Summer Bird, 2009 Belmont winner, on the evening of his big win. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[A little Belmont day medicine]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/6/5/a-little-belmont-day-medicine/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-06-05T13:03:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The 2007 Belmont was memorable in more ways than one.  ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Mr. Belmont Wins the Belmont]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/6/2/mr.-belmont-wins-the-belmont/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-06-02T22:02:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 1869, August Belmont wins the third running of his race with one of his own. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[My First Crush]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/5/26/my-first-crush/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-05-27T01:58:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Teresa Genaro recalls Afleet Alex's run to the 2005 Belmont. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The Belmont Stakes, by the numbers]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/5/19/the-belmont-stakes,-by-the-numbers/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-05-20T03:04:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The good news is that despite an overall decline in racing attendance, the Belmont Stakes continues to draw people to the track.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[New York’s Easy Goer!]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/5/14/new-york’s-easy-goer/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-05-14T15:15:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[When I had a Significant Birthday a few years ago, my brother and his family presented me with a framed, poster-sized cover of the June 13, 1994 Sports Illustrated:  “Captain Marvelous:  Mark Messier...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[My First Time]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/teresa-genaro/2009/5/7/my-first-time/" /><id>urn:uuid:e35528f3-607e-4056-8914-01833e96cd7f</id><updated>2009-05-07T20:10:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Teresa Genaro looks back on her first trip to Belmont Park and the Belmont Stakes.]]></summary></entry></feed>