Racing fans of all ages are probably familiar with the sight of Secretariat rocketing through the stretch of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, wrapping up a Triple Crown sweep with a lopsided 31-length victory.
It’s already been a bountiful year for Javier Castellano. In addition to winning his first Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve aboard Mage, he was honored in March with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award on the heels of a nationwide vote by his fellow riders.
Since February, Sara Elbadwi, 27, has been working as an on-air handicapper and production assistant/research specialist for the television production team at the New York Racing Association. A native of Red Hook, N.Y., a small upstate town, Elbadwi’s on-desk appearances have taken place on NYRA’s “Talking Horses,” a handicapping show that precedes the day’s racing card. In fact, her first appearance on the show, in January, before she was hired, was part of her job interview.
The 155th running of the Grade 1 $1.5 million Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets will be broadcast on FOX from 4-7:30 p.m. ET, with a scheduled post time of 7:02. The final leg of the Triple Crown, run at a mile and a half, attracted a field of nine.
The final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown is set for Saturday, June 10, when the 155th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets will be held at Belmont Park. This year marks a transition in national television coverage of the Triple Crown, as Fox Sports will show the 1 ½-mile “test of the champion” for the first time.
