The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival is this weekend with a full slate of fantastic racing, beginning Thursday and running right through the loaded Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets card on June 5.
I suppose some folks could claim Saturday’s 153rd running of the $1.5 million Grade 1 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets isn’t quite as elite as it could be. The Belmont Park classic serves as the final leg of the Triple Crown, but for the third year in a row, there isn’t a Triple Crown bid on the line. Furthermore, just eight horses have been entered in the 1 1/2-mile test of speed and stamina, tied for the smallest field since 2008.
Back in its traditional spot on the calendar five weeks after the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, the Grade 1, $1.5 Million Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets doesn’t have a Triple Crown on the line, or even the Derby winner trying to make amends for losing the
After being contested as the opening leg of the Triple Crown last year and run at a mile and an eighth due to the pandemic, the 153rd Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets returns to its customary place on the racing calendar as the last of the spring classics, run at a mile and a half on the first Saturday in June.
This Saturday, Belmont Park will host the $1.5 million, Grade 1 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets. This year’s 1 ½-mile “Test of the Champion” concludes this year’s Triple Crown series, and features some of the country’s top 3-year-olds.
