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The 2023 Belmont Stakes was the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes and the 112th time the event took place at Belmont Park.The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 furlongs; 2,414 metres) race, known as the "test of the champion", is the final leg in the American Triple Crown, open to three-year-old thoroughbreds.
The draw for the event was held at Churchill Downs at 2:00 p.m. on May 1, 2023. [8] Forte was installed as the 3-to-1 favorite and drew post number 15. Three horses were withdrawn from the Derby two days before the race.
He was also the second horse in Derby history to win the race from the 20th post, following Big Brown in 2008. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] It was the first Kentucky Derby victory for trainer Eric Reed , [ 48 ] as well as the first graded stakes win of any kind for jockey Sonny Leon .
Sierra Leone and Forever Young closed late, but were not able to catch Mystik Dan, who held on to win the race by a nose in the race's first three-horse photo finish since the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Sierra Leone and Forever Young repeatedly bumped each other down the stretch, but neither horse's jockey claimed a foul.
The 2024 Preakness Stakes was the 149th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs; 1,911 metres).
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The Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, [9] thus all entrants in the 2018 race were part of the 2015 North American live foal crop of roughly 22,000. [10] The field was limited to twenty horses who qualified based on points earned in the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby , a series of designated races that was first ...
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