It was a good thing that before the results of the summer races at Saratoga Race Course executives with the Phillip Morris tobacco company decided to put up $250,000 to sponsor a race at Belmont Park.
There are racehorses, and then there are racehorses, the ones who seem born with an innate desire to excel in competition and outrun opponents no matter the distance, conditions, or level of competition.
There can no doubting that the great Miesque was a racehorse in the truest sense.
Following his victory in the Group 1 Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes, Auguste Rodin improved his rating to a 124 and joined the Top 10 in the seventh edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2023.