When Luis Saez first rode Dornoch at Saratoga Race Course last summer, he told trainer Danny Gargan, “You have the Derby winner.”
It’s Belmont Stakes Day and though the scenery has changed as well as the distance of the final leg of the 2024 Triple Crown, we should have a great race here to close out this five-week rite of passage where young horses become men.
With all the best racing running up at Saratoga today, we also have our eyes on Bensalem as the unofficial horse of Bleacher Brothers Uncle Ernie will run in a Pennsylvania-bred allowance going 7 furlongs on the main track. Post time for Ernie’s return is for 3:37 pm Eastern time.
Happy Friday and happy Belmont Stakes Eve! We are here for day 2 of the Belmont Stakes Festival at Saratoga, and today we will take a look at the finale of a 12-race card. The Acorn is a mile and an eighth race going a mile and one-eighth on the main track, which is one lap around the main track. Post time for the Acorn is 6:40 pm Eastern time.
Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year.
The 156th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday will not produce a Triple Crown winner. However, it may very well prove decisive in determining which colt will be crowned Champion Three-Year Old for 2024. Part of the reason is
The Belmont Stakes is the final test of the Triple Crown — the third resume booster to edge a horse into the history books. It’s not an easy feat.
Do not adjust your computers or phones. We are at Saratoga for the next few days as Saratoga Race Course will be hosting the Belmont Stakes and the Belmont Stakes Festival while Belmont is being renovated. There will be four days of top notch racing as we close out the Triple Crown on Saturday, and the massive amount of stakes races this weekend.
After two night races north of the border, we head somewhat close to home as we head to Delaware Park for Wednesday’s race as we have fillies and mares going 6 furlongs on the main track. Post time for today’s race is scheduled for 4 pm Eastern time.