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Belmont Stakes
Stakes:
Grade I For 3-year-old thoroughbreds; 1 mile and
1/8 mile
Race type: Thoroughbred
Purse: $1,000,000 US
Location: Belmont Park - Elmont,
New York USA
Inaugurated: 1867
Track: Dirt, Left-handed
Weight: Colt/Gelding:
126 lbs (57.2 kg) Filly:
121 lbs. (54.9 kg)
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Belmont Stakes
 The
final jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes
---Test of the Champion for 3-year-olds, is the
oldest of the top three races and the longest at
one and a half miles. Horse racing fans also call
it the Race for the Carnations.
Winning the Belmont not only allow horses to take
home the $1 million purse, but also the once-in-a-lifetime
chance of winning the Triple Crown honors.
The Belmont Stakes can vary from a huge excitement
to a laid back race, depending on the results from
the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes races. If
only one winner emerges from these first two legs,
the time leading up to the event will be total madness
with the media and horse racing fans from all over
the world coming to witness a possible coronation
of a Triple Crown winner since 1978.
But the atmosphere will be much more relaxed if
two different winners come out of Louisville and
Maryland, although far from fans losing interest
in the Belmont Stakes altogether.
Belmont Stake's inaugural running was in 1867 at
Jerome Park Recourse. It is the oldest of the Triple
Crown races, it predates Preakness by six years
and the Kentucky Derby by eight. Furthermore, it
is also the fourth oldest race overall in North
America.
The first running took place on a Thursday at a
mile and five furlongs, with an entry fee of $200
half forfeit with $1,500 added. The Belmont was
transferred from Jerome Park to Morris Park in 1890,
it was to stay there until 1905 when the Belmont
Park was opened. Belmont Stakes is run on the first
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