Down the Stretch 333 for June 1, 2026

From Woodbine, 3 Stakes – the Belle Mahone, the Eclipse and the Jacques Cartier. From Mohawk - the Somebeachsomewhere and a pair of $100,000 Graduate Series races for 4-year-olds.Woodbine’s Alanna Nolan is on the phone telling how the company’s production team notched a pair of finalists for the Hashtag Sports Awards.A horse bred by Sam Son Farm won at Churchill Downs and paid $54.50 to win.Chantal Sutherland is now 50 and still winning races – 2 on one afternoon at MonmouthAt Ajax Downs, another good day for the Benitez brothers and a pair of quarter horse rarities. A mother horse racing against her daughter and a speedster named Peighntmeadiamond, who is not only a blood relative to the great Northern Dancer, but on May 27, which would have been the Dancer’s 65th birthday, the 4-year-old won a race.And when Conn Smythe the horse won 2 races in a row, we recalled the human Conn Smythe and how he financed a Stanley Cup win after betting on a 107-1 shot. Jockey Jeffrey Alderson admits he knows much more about the horse named Conn Smythe than the man,