Rich Cristiano

After an incredible day yesterday, all eyes are on New York Showcase Day and the Empire Classic! We’re thrilled to see our champion 3-year-old, Pandagate, back in action in the older division now. Huge thanks to @clementstable for having him primed and ready, and we can’t wait to see @DavisJockey back in the saddle. Let’s get ‘em! 🏇🗽

We have a huge week of racing ahead for the club at Belmont! The weekend is highlighted by Gratefully returning in The Perfect Sting Stakes on Friday, followed by Pandagate in The Empire Classic on Saturday. But first, we get things going today with About Face making his Adelphi debut in Race 3, a maiden special weight on the grass. Good luck to his Adelphi partners, trainer @depazracing, and jockey @JOCKEYSMARIN! 💪🏻

Luckbeourlady was more than lucky in today’s nightcap @BelmontPark1905 🙏🏻 Congrats to all her partners and special thanks to @clementstable and Jockey Caesar Gonzalez who gave her a very good ride!

Blazing Tiger gets it done! 🐅 He unleashed an emphatic burst to take the 2nd race at Belmont today. A brilliantly patient ride by @jockeyfranco and a masterful training job by @clementstable on a short 19-day turnaround from Kentucky Downs. Thrilled to see this talented horse put it all together! 💪🏻

Kicking off a new era of New York racing in style! The new Belmont Park is absolutely stunning, but Conman stole the show by securing his second consecutive win. A massive thank you to trainer @morley_racing and jockey @RSantana_Jr for their masterful work with him today. Congratulations to all our partners!

There can be a lot of negativity in this sport and on this app, but today is a great day for New York racing. Congratulations to everyone who helped bring this to life. Will everyone love every single detail? No. Will everything go 100% smoothly right out of the gate? Probably not. But this is a beautiful, modern, and vibrant facility (the first state-of-the-art track built in this country in years). A new Belmont secures the future of racing in New York for generations to come.

Closing out the card at the Spa today! Illmatic runs in the nightcap and should be tough to handle late. Good luck to his Adelphi Partners, co-owner @LJSSThoro and trainer @clementstable 💪🏻

Blame It On KJ goes in Race #9 today (turf or dirt) at The Spa! Good luck to his partners, trainer @duggan101 as well as to jockey @RSantana_Jr who won his last race for the club on Sunday…Let’s keep it rolling!

After a “bye week” last week, we are back in action today at The Spa! Illmatic (coming off of his 2nd place finish in the stake last time out) will face allowance company in today’s 11th race. Good luck to his Adelphi partners, co-owner @LJSSThoro and the @clementstable 🎤

Nice start to our Saratoga summer. Let’s keep it rolling on Sunday when we run our first 2-year-old - Antonelli 🏎️

Fresh off Sunday’s win, we’re back in action today at Saratoga! Hidden Rose enters Race 5 coming off a 12-length score at Finger Lakes. She’s stepping up against tougher company today at “The Spa,” and we can't wait to see her run. Good luck to her Adelphi partners, co-owner @RacingCold, trainer @clementstable, and jockey @Tyler_Gaff Let’s keep the momentum going 🌹

The Choice Facing Thoroughbred Racing: Row Together, or Sink Alone For decades, the Thoroughbred racing industry has operated less like a unified sport and more like a collection of feudal kingdoms. We protect our individual borders, engage in bitter internal disputes, and litigate our differences in the court of public opinion. While we have been busy fighting over our slice of the pie, however, the pie itself has been shrinking. We find ourselves in a defining moment for the future of our sport. We face a stark choice - we can continue our negative focus, public infighting, and short-sighted posturing, or we can finally get into the same boat and row in the same direction. In a contracting industry, collaboration isn't just a buzzword, it is a requirement for survival. So, in the spirit of making actual progress, I’m asking you to take a minute to look at an idea for aftercare, challenge the math, and join me in making it a reality. A Ground-Up Solution for Aftercare Nowhere is this need for collective action clearer than in our responsibility to the horses themselves. @RepoleStable has repeatedly and rightfully, on this platform, called on the industry to support Thoroughbred aftercare in a meaningful way. Historically, we have watched the industry fail at a top-down approach to fully funding aftercare. Mandates and administrative programs only go so far. It is time we try a ground-up approach, one driven by the participants themselves. We can look to other industries for inspiration. Let’s create a "carbon neutral" equivalent for horse racing: a Net-Neutral Aftercare Program. The concept is simple- participants actively fund the lifetime retirement gap for their entire roster of incoming horses (2-year-olds). We know how the lifecycle works. Some horses will have their lifetime care covered naturally through breeding or private placement. Some will need decades of intensive sanctuary care. A portion of that care is already cushioned by current, excellent aftercare donations and existing registry programs. But a massive funding gap remains. If the average lifetime gap to protect a horse after racing is $7,000 (a completely made up and demonstrative figure), and a stable buys six 2-year-olds at auction (or breeds them), that stable's leadership should work to generate $42,000 in dedicated funding to ensure their participation is completely "neutral." I have wanted to implement this exact model for Adelphi Racing Club for a while now, but the roadblock has always been data…finding an accurate, universally accepted way to calculate that specific "gap" per horse figure. I am challenging the industry participants reading this…The analysts, the bloodstock agents, the trainers, the tracks and track executives, the aftercare organizations, the Jockey Club, the owners and the breeders…To come together and help us calculate that definitive baseline figure. Once we have it, I challenge every owner and breeder to do their part from the ground up to fill that gap for their own stable of horses. Let’s stop waiting for an institutional savior. Let's work together, let's lead, and let's actually make some tangible progress. -Matt C @jockeyclub @MigBloodstock @duggan101 @FalconeJr @clementstable @acacia_clement @morley_racing @MaggieWolfndale @depazracing @DRFGrening @HorseToWatch @andyserling @ABRLive @DRFLivingston @BloodHorse @Steve_Byk @UrbnHandicapper @ChristinaBlackr @DRFGrening @barshoelife @failedtomenace @SaratogaGoose @BklynBckstretch @GiddyUpBets @trifectabox @iradortiz @joesantos_33 @BeemieAwards @jockeykdavis @TripleDeadHeat @loomsboldly @TheMichelleYu @TheNYRA @raypaulick @stoolpresidente @PatCummingsNTA @raypaulick @theTDN @Utbighair @NewVocations @trfinc @DarwinVizcaya_ @pvisco28 @hhhracingpod @BradWeisbord @westlakeracing @yagodaaron @ZillaStable @GhostofSwiftH