Belmont Stakes

A nasty fall riding in a race earlier this week sidelined jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. and proved costly on Belmont Stakes day

The 2021 Belmont Stakes kicks off on June 5 in front of 11,000 spectators at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

Favorite Essential Quality has won the Belmont Stakes to give trainer Brad Cox his first win a Triple Crown race.

Investing in a racehorse was once reserved for the wealthy, but platforms are making it easier to invest small sums in Thoroughbreds.

Visitors who get vaccinated at a new Belmont Park pop-up vaccination site will receive complimentary admission to the 2022 Belmont Stakes.

Bob Baffert was suspended Monday from entering horses at New York racetracks, pending an investigation into Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s failed postrace drug test. Baffert will temporarily not be allowed to stable any horses at Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course or run any of his horses at the New York Racing Association’s tracks. That ban...

It’s the most prestigious prize in horse racing – and the most elusive

Eerily empty grandstands. Masked jockeys. Shuttered betting windows. For Tiz the Law trainer Barclay Tagg, no finer way to round out a career Triple Crown. “I’m not trying to be a jerk about it,” the 82-year-old said. “But I thought the quiet, to me, was very nice.” Everything was strange about this Belmont Stakes, except the winner. Heavily favored...

Tiz The Law won the 2020 Belmont Stakes on Saturday afternoon in Elmont, New York

Tiz the Law was made the early 6-5 favorite for the Belmont Stakes this weekend

Mike Smith, the jockey also known as “Big Money Mike,” explains how the coronavirus pandemic has turned the horse racing world upside down and why the Belmont Stakes is so different this year.

The Belmont Stakes will be run June 20 in New York in front of no fans as the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown

For the past five years, Luis Grandison was the only full-time Spanish language horse race narrator in the U.S.

Justify cemented his place in history with a Triple Crown win at Belmont Stakes.

After the wettest Kentucky Derby on record and a similarly rainy Preakness Stakes, staff at Belmont Park — home to the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes — know they have to be prepared for whatever nature brings their way on June 9. But this isn’t anything new. Every year, staff and trainers — and horses...

After winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, Justify has just one more race between him and the sport’s most prestigious prize, the Triple Crown.