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The 157th running of the $1,500,000 Belmont Stakes (Grade I), is the final leg of the Triple Crown and is set for Saturday, June 7.

When is the Belmont Stakes?

The Belmont Stakes is on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

Where is the Belmont Stakes?

The Belmont Stakes is raced this year at Saratoga Race Course (Belmont Park under construction).

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March 7 - The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the stakes schedule for the 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which will be held at Saratoga Race Course from Wednesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 8.

Highlighted by the 157th edition of the Grade 1, $2 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7, the five-day 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will include 27 stakes races with purses totaling $11,275,000, the richest purses and highest number of stakes offered since the launch of the multi-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival in 2014.

The Grade 1, $2 million Belmont Stakes will once again be contested at 1 1/4 miles in 2025 rather than the traditional 1 1/2 miles due to the configuration of Saratoga's main track.

For the third consecutive year, FOX will present live broadcast coverage of the Belmont Stakes. FOX Sports is the television home of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, providing viewers across the county with wall-to-wall coverage and expansive on-site analysis of the five-day Festival from Saratoga.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks off on Wednesday, June 4, with the nation's top steeplechasers in the Grade 1, $150,000 Beverly R. Steinman, a 2 3/8-mile hurdles test for older horses, before the card moves into New York Showcase Day.

New York Showcase Day features six $200,000 events exclusively for New York-breds, including the seven-furlong Mike Lee for sophomores; Bouwerie at the same distance for sophomore fillies; the nine-furlong Commentator for 3-year-olds and up and the Critical Eye at the same distance for females 3-years-old and up. On the turf, there will be a pair of 1 1/16-mile events, the Kingston for older horses and the Mount Vernon for older fillies and mares.

Thursday, June 5 presents four stakes, including two graded with the 5 1/2-furlong turf Grade 2, $200,000 Intercontinental for older filles and mares, and the Grade 3, $300,000 Poker for older horses going one-mile on the lawn. Juveniles will also be on full display in the Listed $150,000 Tremont at 5 1/2 furlongs and the $150,000 Astoria for fillies at the same distance.

Friday, June 6 is led by four Grade 1s for females, including the $750,000 New York presented by Rivers Casino, a 1 3/16-mile turf test for ages 4-and-up; the nine-furlong $500,000 Ogden Phipps presented by Ford for older fillies and mares; the $500,000 DK Horse Acorn at the same distance for the division's sophomores; and the one-mile turf $500,000 Just a Game for ages 4-and-up.

A pair of Grade 2s will complete the card, with the seven-furlong $300,000 Bed o' Roses for older female dirt sprinters and the $250,000 Belmont Gold Cup for older turf marathoners going two miles.

A blockbuster Belmont Stakes Day at Saratoga awaits on Saturday, June 7 with a program to include five Grade 1 events among eight stakes in total, culminating with the Belmont Stakes and featuring the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap going one mile out of the Wilson Chute for 3-year-olds and up, and the 5 1/2-furlong turf Grade 1, $500,000 Jaipur also for 3-year-olds and up. The prestigious and historic Grade 1s on Belmont Stakes Day also includes the 1 3/16-mile turf $1 million Resorts World Casino Manhattan for older horses and the seven-furlong $500,000 Woody Stephens for sophomores.

Belmont Stakes Day will be bolstered by the Grade 2, $300,000 Wonder Again for sophomore fillies traveling 1 1/16 miles on turf, as well as a pair of Grade 3s, including the 6 1/2-furlong $400,000 True North for older dirt sprinters and the $300,000 Pennine Ridge for sophomores going 1 1/16 miles on grass.

The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga will conclude on Sunday, June 8 with two stakes for sophomore fillies, led by the Grade 3, $175,000 Soaring Softly at 5 1/2 furlongs on grass, along with the six-furlong $150,000 Jersey Girl on the main track.

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Belmont Stakes History

The Belmont Stakes, the final and most demanding leg of the Triple Crown, is named after August Belmont who had been a leading banker and racing man of the 19th century. He was also the first President of the Jockey Club in 1867. In 1869, August Belmont took first and second money with his own Fenian and Glenelg. When the race initially started running in 1867 it took place at Jerome Park Racetrack which is in the Bronx. The race didn't move until the Belmont Park opened in 1905 and the race has since remained at this venue.

The Belmont Stakes race is the third race in the triple crown and can carry a ton of excitement. By the time the Belmont Stakes rolls around bettors usually have an idea of what to expect from each horse since the top contenders will have already ran two races.. This means bettors have more information to work with in order to tip the odds in their favour and earn money betting on the Belmont Stakes race.

The Belmont Stakes is a 1.5-mile race, while the Kentucky Derby is only 1.25-mile and the Preakness Stakes is only 1.1875-mile. This extra distance changes the entire dynamic of the race and some horses who may excel at the first two races will not be able to last that extra quarter mile at the Belmont Stakes. This is why the Belmont Stakes is often referred to as the "test of the champion".

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Belmont Stakes Trivia

1 1/2miles - The distance of the Belmont Stakes, longer than both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

2 - The number of horses to compete in the race when Man o' War won in 1920. The race also had a two-horse field on four occasions before that.

2:24 - The distance of the Belmont Stakes, longer than both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

1 1/2miles - Record winning time for the Belmont, set by Secretariat when he won the Triple Crown in 1973.

3 - The number of times the Belmont has been decided by a nose, most recently when Victory Gallop denied Real Quiet a Triple Crown win in 1998.

3 - The number of fillies who have won the race. Rags to Riches' 2007 win is the most recent, breaking a 102-year drought since Tanya won the race in 1905.

6 - Number of Belmont wins by jockeys Eddie Arcaro and Jim McLaughlin, tied for the record.

8 - Record number of Belmont Stakes wins by a trainer, held by James Rowe Sr. His last win came in 1913, and he also won two Belmont Stakes as a jockey.

15 - The biggest field ever to contest the race, in 1983.

20 - The number of (equine) winners whose named started with the letter C, more popular than any other first initial.

31 lengths - The margin of victory when Secretariat romped in the 1973 edition, a record.

34 - The number of odds-on favorites to run in the Belmont since 1940. Thirteen of them won.

62 - Number of times the betting favorite has won the Belmont, equal to 42 percent of the time.

$142.50 - Record win payoff, when Sarava won at 70.25-1 in 2002.

1867 - The year the Belmont was first run. This year marks the race's 153rd running, as there was no Belmont held in 1911 and 1912.

120,139 - Record attendance, at the 2004 race when Smarty Jones lost his Triple Crown bid.