Tag: Point of Honor

Sign Midnight Bisou Up for Easy Victory in Personal Ensign Stakes

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Put yourself in Motion Emotion’s hooves for the moment. You’ve held off the entire Fleur de Lis Stakes field coming around Churchill Downs’ far turn, and a quarter-mile remains between you and your first stakes victory. Then, all of a sudden, you get passed like you’re standing still. Courtesy of […]

Point of Honor (left) showed off her closing skills in the Black Eyed Susan last year. She is the 2/1 second-favorite in Saturday's Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park. (Image: Lauren Helber/AP Photo)

Ogden Phipps Brings Out Blue-Blooded Fillies and Mares

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The Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park honors the late Ogden Phipps, the former chairman of The Jockey Club, and the textbook definition of the term “blue-blood.” A member of both the International Tennis and National Museum of Racing halls of fame, Phipps was a prominent New York […]