Bob Ehalt and Tom Pedulla became fast friends when they met on their first day at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1970. Bob soon introduced Tom to the joys of Thoroughbred racing.
A fifth straight Triple Crown chase without a sweep will come to an end Saturday when a field of nine will contest the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets.
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.
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 2023 Belmont Stakes is shaping up to be a tremendous race, and it will headline an incredible day of racing and wagering at Belmont Park that will essentially equate to a sort of mini-Breeders’ Cup in June with a total of nine important graded stakes races topped by the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.
