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The time for the race was not only a record, it was the fastest 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles on dirt in history, 2:24 flat, breaking by more than two seconds the track and stakes record of 2:26 3 ⁄ 5 set 16 years earlier by Gallant Man. [77]
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is run over the worldwide classic distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 furlongs; 2,414 metres).
In the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, Risen Star and Delahoussaye pulled away from the field to win by 14 3 ⁄ 4 lengths with a final time of 2:26 2 ⁄ 5. It is the fourth fastest Belmont Stakes behind Hall of Famers A.P. Indy, Easy Goer, and Secretariat. Because of his two Classic victories, Risen Star won the second ...
Secretariat's run in the Belmont is so legendary the racetrack has a pole inside the rail — in his signature blue-and-white checkered silks — marking where the next-closest horse was when he ...
The 2024 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga is expected to have a field that includes Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Preakness winner Seize The Grey.
Fox Sports will broadcast the Belmont Stakes for the first time this year, and the network will broadcast the race through 2030. Belmont Stakes Day coverage airs nationally from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on ...
The 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973. Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths going away (had the race been longer he would have won by even more), the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators.
The race was held in New York’s Saratoga Springs, 200 miles north of an under renovation Belmont Park, marking the first time in the 156-year history of the Belmont Stakes the race was hosted at ...