Jody Demling Belmont Picks (2024)

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Who is the favorite to win the Belmont Stakes? ›

Below we will look at Belmont Stakes odds for the 2024 horse race. The official Belmont field with post positions and morning line odds have been posted below. Sierra Leone is the favorite at 9-5.

The $2 exacta paid $326.50, and the $1 trifecta paid $473. The addition of Honor Marie in fourth produced a $3,200.50 payout on a $1 superfecta wager. Mystik Dan won the Kentucky Derby on May 4 and finished second in the Preakness Stakes on May 18. Mystik Dan was never a factor in the Belmont and finished eighth.

The 1973 Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown winner Secretariat holds the track record (which is also a world record on dirt) of 2:24. Elmont, New York, U.S.

John Velazquez: Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez, riding Antiquarian, has likewise recorded two wins aboard Rags to Riches (2007) and Union Rags (2012). Luis Saez: Riding Dornoch, he will aim to join Ortiz and Velazquez as twice-victorious Belmont jockeys. Saez steered Essential Quality to victory in 2021.

A filly won the first-ever Belmont Stakes. Aptly named, “Ruthless” took home the winner's share of $2500 that year. Since then, only two other fillies have won the race – Tanya in 1905 and Rags to Riches in 2007.

Dornoch, (6), with Luis Saez up, crosses the finish line ahead of Mindframe (10), with Irad Ortiz Jr. up, to win the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Who was the last horse to win the trifecta? ›

Ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, which marks the 150th running of the iconic race, we don't have to look too far back for the most recent example of a Triple Crown winner: six years ago, in 2018, Justify hit the trifecta with wins in the Derby, Preakness and Belmont.

It's the sixth consecutive year a different horse won each of the three Triple Crown races. Sierra Leone, the Derby runner-up who went off as the favorite, was third and Honor Marie fourth. Dornoch paid $37.40 to win, $17.60 to place and $8.10 to show.

The winners of the first two Triple Crown races, Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Preakness winner Seize the Grey, are in the 10-horse Belmont field, though the favorite is the Wayne Lukas-trained horse Sierra Leone.

How much will the Belmont Stakes winner take home? The winner will take home $1.5 million from a purse of $2 million, up from $1.5 million last year. That's split between the owner, trainer, and jockey. The jockey's agent and the valet also get a cut.

The first-place payout is $1.2 million, more than half of the total purse, while a second-place finish will come with a $360,000 prize.

Five weeks since Mystik Dan finished a nose ahead of Sierra Leone in the Derby and three weeks since he was second to Seize the Grey in the Preakness, all three are in the 10-horse field in the Belmont for a rematch showdown in front of a sellout crowd of 50,000.

Dornoch, 17-1 long shot co-owned by Jayson Werth, wins 2024 Belmont Stakes, third leg of Triple Crown. Dornoch hit it out of the park. The 17-1 long shot won Saturday's 156th running of the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.