As the steel-gray Silver Charm nears his date with racing history — Saturday’s Belmont Stakes and a possible Triple Crown — his trainer, Bob Baffert, declares: “Unless there’s a horse in that race ...

Silver Charm had just arrived and there were three days before the race is run, but jockey Gary Stevens assured everyone yesterday that the 129th running of the Belmont Stakes is already over. Gary ...

He had done away with Free House, put his head down and charged toward the wire with fire in his eyes. It was as if Silver Charm knew exactly what was at stake yesterday before 70,682 at Belmont Park ...

Only one horse has come closer to winning the Triple Crown than Silver Charm came when he finished three-fourths of a length behind Touch Gold in Saturday’s Belmont. Pensive lost by one-half length to ...

ELMONT, N.Y. — Silver Charm’s bid to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner failed by less than a length yesterday in the 129th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. Before a roaring crowd of 70,682 — the ...

The voice was strong and clear. Bob Baffert heard it over the phone; a ghost of Triple Crowns past. Charlie Whittingham, the last man to saddle a horse here in the Belmont Stakes with a chance of ...

In the spring of 1997, a sensational gray colt captivated the sport of thoroughbred racing by winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. All eyes were on Silver Charm as the days leading up to ...

When you’ve come all the way from a cattle-and-chicken ranch in Nogales, Ariz., to get here the way Bob Baffert has, what’s another mile and a half? In horse racing, it’s from here to immortality. The ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Jockey Jose Santos made a Triple Crown run aboard Funny Cide, overcame a whip controversy and survived a broken back during a 24-year racing career. When Silver Charm is ...