MSG Plus Offers Live Jockey Club Gold Cup Day Coverage
"Super Saturday from Belmont Park" Telecasts on Saturday, October 3 from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
ELMONT, N.Y. September 24, 2009 – MSG Plus, in partnership with The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA), presents "Super Saturday from Belmont Park", offering live coverage of the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational on Saturday, October 3 from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. The telecast will also include coverage of four other prestigious Grade 1 races from Belmont Park.
As expected, the Jockey Club Gold Cup is lining up as one of the best races of the year. It marks the first time that Belmont Stakes and Shadwell Travers winner Summer Bird will compete against older horses. The three-year-old son of Birdstone, trained by Tim Ice, has earned more than $1.5 million in only seven lifetime starts.
Horses likely to take on Summer Bird in the Jockey Club Gold Cup are four-year-old Macho Again, who lost by a head to Rachel Alexandra in the Woodward at Saratoga, five-year-old Bullsbay, who won the Whitney Handicap at Saratoga and ran third in the Woodward, three-year-old Quality Road, who set records in both the Florida Derby and the Amsterdam at Saratoga, and a host of other challengers.
The live coverage on MSG Plus will begin at 4:30 p.m. and feature expert race analysis from Jason Blewitt, Eric Donovan and Andy Serling of NYRA Live. In addition to the Jockey Club Gold Cup, the broadcast will include coverage of four other Grade 1 races from Belmont Park, comprising the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational, the Vosburgh, the Beldame, and the Flower Bowl Invitational.
MSG Plus' Jockey Club Gold Cup Day coverage continues the partnership with NYRA that also comprised live coverage of the 2009 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, the 2009 Mother Goose at Belmont Park and five Saturdays at Saratoga Race Course. In addition to televising live racing action, MSG Plus currently telecasts "Belmont Park/Aqueduct/Saratoga in 30," a daily half-hour race-replay show and "Thoroughbred Weekly," a weekly half-hour show including timely features and races of the week.
