SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. \u2013 The jockey colony for the Belmont fall meet will be picking up two talented riders who are changing circuits.<\/p>\n
Antonio Fresu, a native of Italy who has been riding in Southern California year-round since 2023, and Samuel Marin, who rode at Tampa in the winter and primarily at Colonial Downs in the summer, will both be riding at Belmont when the fall meet begins Sept. 18.<\/p>\n
Fresu, the leading rider at the Santa Anita spring meet in 2025 and 2026, will be represented by agent Ron Anderson. Fresu, runner-up in the Del Mar standings from 2023-25, is third in the standings there this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore opportunities on the East Coast for somebody like him,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cLooking for greener pastures. When you\u2019re still running for $100,000 in stakes [in California] . . . he needs to move on.<\/p>\n
:: Save up to 71% on Saratoga handicapping essentials with a Full Meet Package! Get All Access PPs for the entire meet, plus Clocker Reports and more.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe rides a good race on dirt, I think he\u2019s exceptional on turf,\u201d Anderson added. \u201cHe\u2019s a really respected guy and a quality person. He\u2019s not afraid to work. In the morning, he\u2019ll get on five or six and then ride eight in the afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n Marin has been the leading rider at Tampa Bay Downs each of the last two years, including setting a meet record with 155 victories at the 2025-26 winter meet. Marin, who will be represented by John Panagot, has been riding primarily at Colonial this summer, winning 30 races from 188 mounts. He has eight wins from 29 starts at Monmouth Park.<\/p>\n Panagot said he was going to wait until October to bring Marin to New York but wanted to get started when the meet began. Panagot said Marin plans to stay in New York for the winter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe plan is to be here full time,\u201d Panagot said.<\/p>\n :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF’s Handicapping 101<\/a> and Wagering 101<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. \u2013 The jockey colony for the Belmont fall meet will be picking up two talented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124486,2465,9,11,10,124487,93724],"class_list":["post-330617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-antonio-fresu","tag-belmont","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-samuel-marin","tag-saratoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}