The Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the Triple Crown races. This third and final leg is contested three weeks after the Preakness and five weeks after the Kentucky Derby. Only 11 times has a horse been able to wrap it all up in New York. 2024 Winner: Dornoch17-1 long shot Dornoch ...
but with the sharp decline of horse racing’s popularity by the beginning of the 21st century, the Triple Crown became less prestigious in the eyes of the general sporting public. However, it is still anelusiveachievement: since 1875, the first year in which all three races were in existence...
American Pharoah, (foaled 2012), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in 2015 became the 12th winner of the American Triple Crown—by winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes—an accomplishment that ended a 37-year drough
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Belmont Stakes, oldest and longest of the three classic horse races (with the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes) that constitute the Triple Crown of American horse racing. The Belmont Stakes originated in 1867 and is named after the financier, dipl