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The Length in Belmont Stakes Wagering Helps Make Race Interesting

By: Lynn Smith

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Belmont Stakes gambling will be still be intriguing as mounts go a mile and a half for the first time in their careers, even though the Belmont Stakes is not going to have a Triple Crown on the line.

Belmont Stakes odds like Ice Box but with a mile and a half distance, anything can happen.

Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver or Preakness winner Lookin at Lucky will not be included in Belmont Stakes gambling. There are expected to be 11 mounts though that will go to the post on Saturday. Many trainers don't want to race their mounts at this distance, since the Belmont is a grueling contest. Mounts that get the Belmont usually don't get their next contest. The truth is, in the last decade, only 3 times has a horse secured the Belmont and then secured his next contest. Summer Bird did it a year ago, Birdstone in 2004 and Point Given did it in 2001.

Belmont Stakes odds on Saturday will be the fourth time in the past 50 years and the third time since 2000 that neither the Derby winner nor the Preakness winner will be in the contest. There was a Triple Crown on the line 2 years ago but Big Brown was a washout in the Belmont. Four years ago it was Jazil winning in Belmont Stakes odds in a contest that did not incorporate the Derby winner Barbaro or the Preakness winner Bernardini.

There are a variety of unknown mounts in this year's Belmont Stakes gambling lineup. One of them might actually make their mark although it seems more likely that Ice Box, First Dude or Fly Down will succeed. That doesn't mean that mounts like Game On Dude, Make Music for Me, Spangled Star and Drosselmeyer won't get some action on the gambling board. History has shown that anything can happen in the Belmont, which is a tough contest.

When you consider a track length of a mile and a half in the Belmont Stakes you don't have much to go on. The mounts in the field have never run this far and they will probably never race this far again. Whether a horse can make the length is all up in the air. It is still up in the air as to how a horse will manage the mile and a half, though pedigree is a factor.

The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes are the 3 races that encompass the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Based at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, the Kentucky Derby is one and a quarter miles in length. The Preakness Stakes is run over one and 3/16ths of a mile at the Pimlico Contest Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Presented every year in Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, the Belmont Stakes is the final leg of the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, and winning all three of these races is deemed the greatest achievement a thoroughbred can ever accomplish. However, no horse in the United States has won the Triple Crown since 1978, when Affirmed attained it.

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