FOX Sports will be the primary place to turn for television coverage of the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which begins Thursday and will have the 156th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets as its centerpiece Saturday.
D. Whitworth “Whit” Beckman has been a trainer since 2021. He’s sent out a modest 220 starters in the interim and owns 29 wins with earnings of $2.6 million through June 4. But when it comes to major New York stakes, he knows as well as anyone what goes into developing the kind of horses who win those races.
It’s still the Belmont Stakes. It’s still the third and final jewel in the Triple Crown. But the setting. That’s what will make the 2024 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets so special and memorable.
Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Thoroughbred Poll.
August Belmont Sr. treasured stamina and bred his horses accordingly. When he and partner Leonard Jerome founded their New York racetrack in 1866, Belmont wanted to add a long-distance stakes, one that celebrated stamina in 3-year-olds. To that end, he inaugurated the 1 5/8-mile Belmont Stakes in June 1867, the sophomore test at Jerome Park soon becoming a traditional test of endurance.
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