FOX Sports will provide extensive coverage of the five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival from Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., beginning Wednesday and extending through Sunday.
Round 1 went to Golden Tempo. Round 2, which is actually Round 3 of the Triple Crown, comes Saturday when the top-two finishers in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve meet again in the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets.
The group of jockeys assembled to ride in this year’s Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets includes many of the leading riders in the Empire State, including five who competed in last year’s race.
The 158th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets June 6 will once again carry a special designation in the Triple Crown history books, as for the third consecutive year it will be held at historic Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York while Belmont Park puts finishing touches on a m
It was a relatively quiet racing week in North America prior to Memorial Day, which featured five graded stakes around the country including three at Santa Anita Park and a big day of racing at Lone Star Park in Texas.
