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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).
Belmont is also sometimes known as "The Championship Track" because almost every major champion in racing history since the early 20th century has competed on the racecourse – including all of the Triple Crown winners. Belmont Park, with its large, wide, sweeping turns and long homestretch, is considered one of the fairest racetracks in America.
The 2024 Belmont Stakes was the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes and the first time the event took place at Saratoga Race Course, due to renovations at Belmont Park. [1] The 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (10 furlongs; 2,012 metres) race was won by upset Dornoch (17-1) with a time of 2:01.64.
The 2024 Belmont Stakes has some big changes this year.. The final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown will feature a different venue, and a different distance, compared to normal. With Belmont ...
The move has been expected for some time since the New York Racing Association unveiled plans for the $455 million Belmont Park project. ... the Belmont will be run at a distance of 1 1/4 miles ...
This year, with it happening at Saratoga Race Course instead of Belmont Park, the shape of the track makes it implausible to run it at 1½ miles, so it's being shortened to 1¼ miles — the same ...
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) decided instead to hold the Belmont Stakes on June 20, three weeks after racing in New York reopened on June 3. Because of the disrupted racing schedule, NYRA also decided to shorten the race from its traditional distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) to 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (1.8 km). The race thus went from ...
At Belmont, the chute permits races at distances up to 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (1,800 m) to be run (formerly up to 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles [2,000 m], but this chute, which at one point crossed over the training track, was truncated in the late 1970s to eliminate the aforementioned cross-over, and today 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles [2,000 m] dirt races at Belmont ...