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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.
Essential Quality is a gray stallion who was bred in Kentucky by Godolphin Stables, for which he races as a homebred.He is by leading sire Tapit, whose earlier crops had included five Breeders' Cup winners (Stardom Bound, Tapizar, Tapitsfly, Hansen, and Untapable), and three Belmont Stakes winners (Tonalist, Creator, and Tapwrit). [3]
Secretariat's record still stands as the fastest running of the Belmont Stakes and an American record for 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles on the dirt. [19] In 1977, Seattle Slew became the first horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated. Affirmed was the last winner of the Triple Crown in the 20th century, taking the Belmont Stakes in 2:26 4/5 on June ...
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 ...
Dornoch emerges in front down the final stretch and finishes ahead of Mindframe and favorite Sierra Leone, overcoming 17-1 odds to win the Belmont Stakes.
Dornoch now has the Belmont Stakes under his belt, but the 3-year-old still has a lot of miles on him. Gargan is eyeing another race potentially this year taking on a similar field and course.
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.