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Belmont Stakes
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Belmont Stakes

Oldest of the three U.S. horse races that constitute the Triple Crown. The Belmont originated in 1867 and is named after August Belmont (see Belmont family). The stakes is held in early June at Belmont Park, near Garden City, Long Island; the course is 1.5 mi (2,400 m).


Belmont Stakes
June; fifth Saturday after Kentucky Derby
The final race of the Triple Crown of horseracing, the Belmont Stakes is traditionally run on the fifth Saturday after the Kentucky Derby (the third Saturday after the Preakness Stakes). Founded in 1867, it takes place at the Belmont Park Race Track in western Nassau County on Long Island, named for August Belmont, a well-to-do German who played an important role in establishing horseracing in New York.
The horse that sweeps the Triple Crown receives a $1 million bonus in addition to the winner's share of the purses, but in years when no horse wins the Triple Crown, the bonus goes to the horse competing in all three races and scoring the highest on a 5-3-1 point system for finishing first, second, or third. The chances of a single horse winning all three races are relatively slim: in 114 years only 11 horses have managed to do it.
Many breeders pay more attention to the Belmont than they do to the other races when it comes to selecting stud prospects because they believe that in the long run, Belmont winners make better sires.
CONTACTS:
New York Racing Association
Aqueduct Racetrack, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd.
Jamaica, NY 11420
800-437-1611 or 718-641-4700; fax: 718-738-8890
www.nyra.com


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Bearer of a pedigree that would be very familiar to American racefans, as he is a half-brother to the Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags To Riches, the Giant's Causeway colt has made rapid progress, having won a Dundalk handicap off a mark of 92 as recently as early September.
Maple rode 4,398 winners before his retirement in 1998, including Belmont Stakes winners Creme Fraiche and Temperence Hill.
In addition, he is a halfbrother to multiple Group 1 winner Peeping Fawn and is closely related to Better Than Honour, who bred the consecutive Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags To Riches.
 
 
 
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