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Boston Globe
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Hot Girl Summer: Where to go and what to eat with your besties in Rhode Island this summer
This summer is about being independent, indulging in what you'd like, and not waiting for an invite to live. Forget the Hamptons. Put your sunscreen on, and let's get into it. Advertisement The Castle Hill Inn in Newport, R.I. offers views of the coastline and passing by sailboats. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe SAILING & OTHER WATER ACTIVITIES Newport will always be the 'Sailing Capital of the World.' It even has Advertisement Take a to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Three Angeles Fund. There are Paddle board or kayak along the Pettaquamscutt River in Narragansett – Folk Vintage Co. is one of the many popular vintage clothing shops along Thames Street in Newport, R.I. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe VINTAGE FINDS & OTHER SHOPPING In Providence, Advertisement Along Newport's most bustling area, Thames Street, you can walk right past the tourist spots selling T-shirts and knickknacks and go into you can expect to find a pair of flattering bell bottoms, and disco balls glisten from the ceiling. Your friends can sit on their plushy sofas while you try on a new fit. For a whole district of shops, head to American socialite Doris Duke's Rough Point mansion along the Cliff Walk in Newport, R.I. Corey Favino GET IN YOUR STEPS You're eating and drinking well, but need to release some serotonin during the day. Get in your steps by walking the grounds at path along the ocean with beautiful views of the waves crashing against the rocky coast, beaches, and Gilded Age mansions. It's also free. The Take a tour of one of the famous Newport mansions — like the Breakers, Rosecliff, or Marble House. Or you can head to heiress and socialite Doris Duke's Advertisement Sachuest Point is one of five national wildlife sanctuaries in Rhode Island. Discover Newport THE PERFECT DAY TRIP Catch The Mohegan Bluffs on Block Island have cliffs that rise more than 200 feet above the ocean. HANDOUT In the morning, go to the Head to the Mohegan Bluffs, where cliffs rise roughly 200 feet above the ocean. A wooden staircase provides beach access. The Audette, a French restaurant of Thames Street in Newport, R.I., offers indoor and outdoor seating. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe WHERE TO EAT IN NEWPORT Newport will likely forever be glamorous, and an idyllic destination for a group. Seaside restaurants are often churning out delicious seafood and serving spritzes. Surrounded by many casual restaurants, Advertisement Head to A chef at Giusto shreds truffles on fried ricotta balls. Discover Newport A platter of shellfish from Little Clam, a new restaurant inside the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport, R.I. Little Clam New to the edge of Newport Harbor as of 2023, Bartenders prepare drinks while patrons socialize at the Gift Horse in Providence, R.I. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe IN PROVIDENCE If you're spontaneous, snag some bar seats at Advertisement If you're a planner, make a reservation at Head to the East Side to check out Crudo, squid salad, and oysters from Dune Brothers, a vendor at Track 15, a food hall in Providence, Rhode Island. Alexa Gagosz And then there's the legendary For brunch in Providence, head to ELSEWHERE If you're tooting around outside of Providence and Newport, head to Westerly to go to In Bristol, go to The deviled egg "Jello" shot at Club Frills, a new funky bar in Providence, R.I. Maurisa Arieta WHERE TO GRAB A DRINK I'm calling the deviled ramos, a deviled egg 'jello shot,' the shot of the summer. It's gin, condensed milk, passion fruit, and orange blossom in the shape of a deviled egg and served on ice in a silver bowl. You can find it at Go to A Champagne-style cocktail with red beet sugar, amaro sweet vermouth, and sparkling wine at LOMA, a Latin-American influenced bar and lounge close to Depasquale Plaza off Atwells Avenue in Providence. Lane Turner/Globe Staff In downtown, If it's daytime and you require a view of the city when sipping on a cocktail, take the elevator to the top floor of the Aloft hotel in downtown Providence to find The Castle Hill Inn, a 40-acre estate in Newport, R.I., offers and outdoor seating area with views of the coastline and passing sailboats. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe In Newport, sit in Adirondack chairs on the lawn at Bartender Zachary Joslyn pours absinthe in the Secret Bar at the Vanderbilt hotel in downtown Newport. Christopher Muther/Globe Staff Make your way to The Vanderbilt, a hotel inside a mansion, to their Parlour room during ' At night, head to Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
USA Today
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Bobby Flay's horse Crudo undercooked at Belmont Stakes
Bobby Flay's horse Crudo undercooked at Belmont Stakes Celebrity chef Bobby Flay's horse Crudo was a long shot to win Saturday's 2025 Belmont Stakes, but Crudo finishing in last place left the Flay and his horse pretty, well, burnt by the whole ordeal. Indeed, Sovereignty galloped away with the final leg of the Triple Crown in New York, and Flay's Crudo finished in last place among the horses in the field. It's not a huge shock considering Crudo wasn't one of the favorites heading into Saturday's prestigious race, but even getting to the Belmont Stakes is pretty solid work for a horse who once couldn't be sold. Flay spoke about the road Crudo, a horse he co-owns with Jimmy Ventura, took to get to Saturday's big stage. "Jimmy and I were going to buy him as a pinhook proposition — we bought him as a weanling and we were going to sell him as a yearling. We brought him to the Saratoga [Fasig-Tipton] sale, and he didn't sell, so we kept him,' Flay told the New York Post. 'I don't usually race colts. I usually race fillies only. But I have him, so he's racing, and he's turned out to have talent." Crudo earned his name for his raw talent, so perhaps the racing horse will fare better at future events. Some horses take time to find their potential on the tracks, of course, so Crudo's time may well come one day. For now, the horse's Belmont performance came out a bit undercooked, leaving Flay with a meal he'd probably like to send back to the kitchen. Pump that sweet horse full of carrots and sugar cubes, let him run around the pasture for a while and shake this race off and try again next time. If anybody knows about a bad night at the stove, it's probably Flay.
New York Post
07-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
2025 Belmont Stakes picks: Best horses to use in exactas, trifectas
Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. If the oddsmakers have the 2025 Belmont Stakes right, it's going to be hard to build yourself a betting ticket with serious upside. That's just the nature of a race with two heavy favorites at the top of the board. No. 7 Journalism (8-5) and No. 2 Sovereignty (2-1) are essentially co-favorites to win the race, and their combined implied probability suggests that one of these horses will win the Belmont Stakes 72 percent of the time. Unless you're sitting on a monster vertical ticket like a Pick 6, it will be very hard to nab a big score from this kind of race by just going with the chalk. With that in mind, let's highlight a couple of the horses further down the odds that could splash your ticket by hitting the board. Crudo went gate to wire in his most recent performance. AP Belmont Stakes: Horses to use in exactas, trifectas No. 1 Hill Road (10-1) Sovereignty is known as the best closer in this division, but there is another late runner in this race that could also make a push down the stretch. HIll Road isn't in the same class as Sovereignty, but if you believe that this race sets up for this style of runner, it makes sense to add Hill Road on your ticket. Especially since there's a significant chance that these odds lengthen as we get closer to post-time and the money starts to pile up on the two favorites. No. 5 Crudo (15-1) One of two horses that will be desperate to get out in front right away, Crudo is an intriguing option in exotics but also as a long shot to win the whole race. Crudo has made just three starts, but is coming off back-to-back wins, most notably his most recent performance at the Sir Barton Stakes. It was an eye-popper as Crudo wired the field, encouraging his connections to enter him into the Belmont. Crudo's best path to success here is to repeat his Sir Barton trip, but that will be pretty tough to accomplish against this class of opponent. That said, there is a chance we haven't seen this horse's best performance, which makes him very intriguing if this price holds. Why Trust New York Post Betting Michael Leboff is a long-suffering Islanders fan, but a long-profiting sports bettor with 10 years of experience in the gambling industry. He loves using game theory to help punters win bracket pools, find long shots, and learn how to beat the market in mainstream and niche sports.
New York Post
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
The horse Bobby Flay couldn't sell has long-shot Belmont Stakes dream
SARATOGA SPRINGS — At 15-1 odds, Crudo is a long shot to outrun Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and Preakness champion Journalism to the wire in Saturday's Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. One could argue, however, that this outcome would be no more of a surprise than the circumstances that led Crudo into the Triple Crown race in the first place for owners Bobby Flay and Jimmy Ventura and Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. 'Jimmy and I were going to buy him as a pinhook proposition — we bought him as a weanling and we were going to sell him as a yearling. We brought him to the Saratoga [Fasig-Tipton] sale, and he didn't sell, so we kept him,' Flay, the chef, restaurant magnate and Food Network star told The Post early Friday morning before visiting Crudo. 'I don't usually race colts. I usually race fillies only. But I have him, so he's racing, and he's turned out to have talent,' Flay continued. 'The Belmont Stakes is New York's most important race and as a New Yorker, it's clearly important to me.' 3 Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is pictured next to Crudo on June 6. Jason Szenes for the NY Post Flay, 60, says he's been watching horse racing since his teenage years when he and his friends from the Yorkville neighborhood in upper Manhattan would cut school and take the A train to Aqueduct. The Belmont Stakes has long been a staple of Flay's social calendar. 'I go to the Belmont every year. I usually take 20-30 people to Belmont Park and make a day out of it,' Flay said. 'It's become a tradition where I have people over to my house for brunch, everyone comes dressed in their racing gear — suits, summer dresses, hats. I feed them in the morning and then put everyone in cars and we go to Belmont and we have a day.' He said those nights usually end with a group dinner at Wolfgang's Steakhouse on 33rd Street. But Saturday, the stakes will be much higher. On Preakness Day at Pimlico, in his third career start, Crudo won the Sir Barton Stakes by 7¹/₂ lengths. Pletcher, a four-time winner in the Belmont, gave the son of 2018 Triple Crown champion Justify a few weeks to breeze, considered other options and decided to give it a go in the $2 million race. 'The horse is here, he's doing well, I don't see a whole lot of pace in the race, we've got [jockey] John Velazquez available,' Pletcher said. 'I couldn't come up with a reason not to give it a try.' Crudo's name, not surprisingly, has ties to the culinary world. 3 Bobby Flay is pictured June 6. Jason Szenes for the NY Post 'I came up with the name,' Flay said, explaining he acknowledged raw talent, though on menus everywhere the word means raw fish. 'It's so hard to name these horses. I liked the fact that it meant raw because he was such a young horse when we bought him and he had talent. 'I told Jimmy what I named him and he was like, 'Really?' He wasn't impressed,' Flay added about his partner, who is in commercial real estate and has been involved in horse racing for more than 30 years. 'Naming horses and naming restaurants. If they turn out to be good, the name makes perfect sense. It couldn't be anything else.' Flay spent much of his spring rooting on his beloved Knicks from the first few rows at Madison Square Garden. Like most fans, he reveled in the team's longest playoff run in 25 years and still is feeling the disappointment. 3 Bobby Flay and co-owner James Ventura are pictured with their horse, Crudo, on June 6. Jason Szenes for the NY Post 'I remember all the playoff seasons when we ran into Michael Jordan,' said Flay, who lists the Knicks and Yankees as his biggest sports passions. 'We were good then, but we kind of couldn't get past it. It was fun to watch those guys play this year. They're a really good team and, unfortunately, they lost to Indiana.' Flay said he was surprised at the firing of coach Tom Thibodeau. 'I am. I thought he did a good job. I mean, we beat the world champions. We beat the Celtics soundly,' he said. 'A couple things go different ways and you're in the Finals. I don't always think that new is a good idea, but it's not my team.' His team on Saturday is Crudo-Flay-Ventura-Pletcher. 'Both Bobby and Jimmy love horse racing. Bobby's been terrific to train for, for a number of years,' Pletcher said. 'He's knowledgeable and also always says, 'You can make the decision.' We've had some success together and these guys are fun to train for.'
New York Post
05-06-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Two long shot picks to win the 2025 Belmont Stakes
Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. Guessing where the prices will go ahead of a Triple Crown race can be a tricky endeavor. There will be a lot more casual money in the pool than in a normal stakes race, so things can get a little funky behind the window as punters back horses with their favorite name, story, or connections. But the betting handle for the 2025 Belmont Stakes should be pretty easy to project. Most of the money is going to show up on the two favorites, No. 7 Journalism (8-5) and No. 2 Sovereignty (2-1). In all likelihood, Journalism and Sovereignty will go off shorter than 2-1, which could make this the tightest margin between the favorite and second choice at the Belmont Stakes since Strodes Creek (13-10) and Go For Gin (3-2) in 1994, per Ed DeRosa of Horse Racing Nation. It is easy to make the case for either Journalism or Sovereignty to win this race — the morning-line odds suggest it's essentially a 75 percent chance one of the favorites comes out on top — but there's a reason there are eight horses in this field, and not just two. After all, Go For Gin and Strodes Creek finished second and third, respectively, behind third-favorite Tabasco Cat in 1994. Here are my 2025 Belmont Stakes long-shot picks: No. 1 Hill Road (10-1) This price should balloon on race day. Not only will the punters be lining up to back the two headliners, but Baeza will be a trendy third choice, and Rodriguez will get plenty of support given the fact he's trained by Bob Baffert. That should set up a situation where Hill Road, who began his career in Ireland, will fly under the radar and hit the board at a big number. To do that, he'll need the race to follow a specific script. Like Sovereignty, Hill Road is a closer who will want the pace to be hot, and then melt down in the business end of the race. Should that happen, Hill Road could pass plenty of tiring foes on his way to a surprising finish. Crudo in his stall after his morning workout at Saratoga Race Course. Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images No. 5 Crudo (15-1) There are a couple of horses that could earnestly attempt to go from gate to wire in this field. Most pundits believe Rodriguez will be the horse that gets out into the lead from the jump, but Crudo could be right there with Baffert's entrant, or even jump out in front of the No. 3 horse. Rodriguez will be the trendier pick between the two front-running horses. Not only is he a Baffert-trained contender, but he will be fresh after he was scratched from the Kentucky Derby and skipped the Preakness. Get the lowdown on the Best USA Sports Betting Sites and Apps Those factors should keep his price in the single digits, while Crudo's odds hover around long-shot territory. But the real reason that Crudo, trained by Todd Pletcher, is a live long shot at Saratoga on Saturday is that he just wired the field in the Sir Barton Stakes three weeks ago on Preakness Day. The competition in that race was nowhere near what he'll face in the Belmont, but there's also a decent chance that this lightly raced horse owned by chef Bobby Flay and Jimmy Ventura continues to improve.
