Tag: Belmont Stakes Betting

By Ed McNamara Racing in New York never ends, an eternal loop of horses running in circles around Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga. Some people play it year round, and others, like me, avoid the …

How to Bet on the Belmont Stakes?  Expert Picks, Odds, Preview, Horse profiles and Pedigrees Belmont Stakes Time The Belmont Stakes field will break from the gate at 5: 42 p.m. ET. The first running …

Why is the Belmont Stakes Being Shortened? This year the race will be contested at 1 1/8 miles, three furlongs shorter than the traditional Belmont Stakes distance of 1 ½ miles because for the first time …

The Belmont Stakes trophy – officially named the August Belmont Trophy — is awarded annually to the owner of the Belmont Stakes winner. The silver bowl or cup, which was created by George Paulding-Farnham, a jeweler and metallurgist, for …

Modernist Uncle Mo—Symbolic Gesture, by Bernardini Owner: Martin and Pam Wygod Breeder: Wygod Stables LLC. (KY) Trainer: Bill Mott Jockey: Junior Alvarado Belmont Stakes Odds: As good as Uncle Mo was as a 2-year-old, winning …

Max Player Honor Code—Fools In Love, by Not For Love Owner: George E. Hall and Sport BLX Thoroughbreds Corp. Breeder: K & G Stables (KY) Trainer: Linda Rice Jockey: Joel Rosario Belmont Stakes Horses: Max …

(Note: The Belmont Stakes on June 20 is the first leg of the Triple Crown this year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the races will be run without spectators, and the order of the races has been …

By Ed McNamara It’s official: The last shall be first. The Belmont Stakes, the longtime finale of the Triple Crown series, will be run June 20 at 1 1/8 miles, around one turn and in …

Robert and Lawana Low’s Intrepid Heart will run in the Belmont Stakes off a third-place finish in the Peter Pan Stakes a month ago. He is a son of leading sire Tapit, who has sired …

Trainer Dale Romans will send out Calumet Farm’s Everfast for a Belmont Stakes start, hoping to capitalize on the colt’s nice runner-up finish at nearly 30-1 in the Preakness Stakes last out. The son of …

Soon after Juddmonte Farms’ Tacitus finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby (boosted to third officially after the winner’s disqualification), his Hall of Fame trainer, Bill Mott, put the Belmont Stakes squarely in his crosshairs for …

Over the last six weeks, the Triple Crown Class of 2019 has been through so many shearing revolutions that it makes the former Derby favorites Omaha Beach, Improbable, and Roadster seem like they were racing …

Previously I highlighted how fillies have historically fared in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, but how have they stacked up in the Belmont Stakes? The Belmont Stakes has produced the fewest filly starters of the …

After the controversary and history made in the Kentucky Derby with the highest win payout since 1913 and the first race-day disqualification of Maximum Security, plus an exciting Preakness Stakes, we are granted an extra …

Notwithstanding the victory in 2018 of Triple Crown winner Justify, the Belmont Stakes truly is one of the great unheralded graveyards for favorites in all of horseracing. It has become increasingly difficult for a horse …