Ron Flatter

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Editor at Horse Racing Nation

Host at The Ron Flatter Racing Pod

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Flatter Pod: See hard-core handicappers analyze Belmont

3 days ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Deep analysis of every horse in Belmont Stakes 2025 is ready tohear now from the hard-core handicappers in their latest pop-up video episode of theRon Flatter Racing Pod via the Horse Racing Nation YouTube channel. HRN handicappers Mark Midland andEd DeRosa are joined by DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello. They gothrough the entire field, 1 through 8, including Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and Preakness winner Journalism.
Flatter Pod: Hard-core handicappers discuss Belmont

4 days ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Deep analysis of every horse in Belmont Stakes 2025 is ready tohear now from the hard-core handicappers in their latest pop-up episode of theRon Flatter Racing Pod. Horse Racing Nation handicappers Mark Midland andEd DeRosa are joined by DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello. They gothrough the entire field, 1 through 8, including Kentucky Derby winnerSovereignty and Preakness winner Journalism.
Belmont Stakes odds: Las Vegas book has 1 narrow favorite

6 days ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty was made a narrow favoritethis week by a Las Vegas bookmaker taking futures action for Belmont Stakes 2025. Caesars Sportsbook of Nevada opened Sovereignty as the 8-5favorite with Preakness victor and Derby runner-up Journalism as the 9-5 secondchoice for Saturday’s 1 1/4-mile classic at Saratoga. DeRosa: Belmont Stakes 2025 fair odds. Baeza was listed Sunday morning at 9-2, Rodríguez 11-2, HillRoad 12-1, Heart of Honor 20-1 and Uncaged 20-1.
Mystik Dan puts Derby hangover behind him, wins Blame Stakes

1 week ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Louisville, Ky.Whether it was because he was due or he ran his race or hereturned to a track he has been known to love, Mystik Dan got back in thewinner’s circle Saturday for the first time since he won Kentucky Derby 2024. It seemed like old times. “I was high-fiving at the eighth pole,” trainer Kenny McPeeksaid after he watched Mystik Dan draw away to a 1 1/4-length victory in theGrade 3, $275,000 Blame Stakes, a two-turn, 1 1/8-mile race for older horses.
Flatter: Can a Kentucky Derby winner please win again?

1 week ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

What does it say about the Kentucky Derby that most of its heroesin the last decade seldom get back to the winner’s circle? What does it say that Mystik Dan will be a pari-mutuelunderdog for the fifth race in a row when he starts Saturday in the Grade 3, $275,000Blame Stakes, his first start at Churchill Downs since his great 18-1 triumph lastMay? Head to Head: 2 opinions, 2 win picks for the Blame.
Flatter Pod: Mig, Hernandez, Shutty on Belmont & Churchill

1 week ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

A preliminary look at next week’s running of Belmont Stakes 2025and a preview of this weekend’s return of Kentucky Derby 2024 winner Mystik Danto Churchill Downs are the centers of attention on this week’s Ron FlatterRacing Pod. From the New York Racing Association and Fox Sports, former jockeyRichard Migliore offers his perspective on the Triple Crown and how the rematchof Sovereignty and Journalism might unfold next Saturday.
Christophe Clément, trainer of 41 Grade 1 wins, dies at age 59

1 week ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Christophe Clément, who grew up in a racing family in hisnative France before finding success as a trainer in America, died this weekendafter suffering from a rare form of cancer. He was 59. “Unfortunately, if you are reading this, it means I wasunable to beat my cancer,” Clément said in a message he left for his family topost on social media after his death. “As many of you know, I have beenfighting an incurable disease, metastatic uveal melanoma.”????
Flatter Pod: Scheinman, Hettel, DeRosa on Preakness thriller

2 weeks ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

The Preakness 2025 hangover has not been curedyet, and why should it? One of the great races of all time is subject to reviewas the Belmont Stakes looms on the horizon on the Ron Flatter Racing Pod. Two-time Eclipse Award-winning turf writerJohn Scheinman from Baltimore has his thoughts about the race, the Triple Crownschedule and the future of racing in Maryland with old Pimlico scheduled to bedemolished this year. Flashback: Journalism pulls off Preakness squeeze play.
Flatter: Stewards hide behind closed doors at Preakness 2025

2 weeks ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

And so Umberto Rispoli makes like Moses with Journalism inPreakness 2025 and parts that proverbial trickle like it is the Red Sea. AndFlavien Prat drives Goal Oriented like he was about to miss the off ramp. And so last year Tyler Gaffalione reaches out to givesomething other than a love tap to Forever Young when he is riding Sierra Leonewithin a nose of a victory in the Kentucky Derby.
Retired steward would have DQ’d Journalism in Preakness

2 weeks ago | horseracingnation.com | Ron Flatter

Bernie Hettel spent more than 40 years working as a racingsteward at every level from maiden claimers to the Kentucky Derby. Asked how hewould have ruled on Journalism’s bump-and-grind victory Saturday in Preakness 2025, he did not mince seven particular words. “I think I would have disqualified Journalism.”Add his to the chorus of conflicting opinions that came outof the pivotal squeeze play between inward-bound Goal Oriented and retreatingrail runner Clever Again.

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