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The 2021 Belmont Stakes was the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes and the 110th time the event took place at Belmont Park. The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2,400 m) race, known as the "test of the champion", is the final leg in the American Triple Crown, open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The race was won by Essential Quality.
The 2020 contest also marked the first time in history that the Belmont Stakes served as the Triple Crown's opening leg, with its running length shortened accordingly to 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (9 furlongs), [29] its shortest distance since 1894. [30] The 154th running of the Belmont Stakes was held on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Mo Donegal won with a ...
The colt delivered Gargan his first victory in a Triple Crown race. Saez, Dornoch’s jockey, now has a pair of Belmont Stakes victories: He also won the 2021 Belmont Stakes with Essential Quality.
As the venue for the Belmont Stakes moves to Upstate New York, the dynamic of the third leg of the Triple Crown changes. Let us think on that. Our underperforming horseracing desk has a few ...
While the purse for the 155th Belmont Stakes will be $1.5 million for the 3-year-old Thoroughbreds going 1.5 miles on the track’s dirt surface, the New York Racing Association will increase the ...
Essential Quality (foaled April 9, 2018) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Belmont Stakes, the 2021 Travers Stakes, and the 2020 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He was named the 2020 Champion Two-Year-Old and the 2021 Champion Three-Year-Old.
The most recent of those wins came in last month’s Peter Pan Stakes, when Antiquarian survived a stretch battle with The Wine Steward, who comes to the Belmont never having finished worse than ...
The Belmont Gold Cup Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four years old and older held over two miles on the turf scheduled annually in early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The event currently carries a purse of $250,000.