Belmont Stakes Contenders
Each year, top three-year-old horses compete in the oldest & final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes.
Closer to Race Day in June 2025, you will see official information below for all Belmont Stakes contending horses, including owner, trainer, jockey, silks, and odds to win the Belmont Stakes. Until then, see last year's longshot winner, Dornoch, as an example.
By Good Magic and out of the graded stakes-placed Big Brown mare Puca, Dornoch is a full brother to 2023 Kentucky Derby-winner Mage. The Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase put together a three-race win streak, beginning with a third-out frontrunning graduation in October 2023 at Keeneland ahead of his gritty Remsen win, where he skimmed the rail and relinquished the lead to Sierra Leone before battling back to take the spoils. Despite this success, he still flew relatively under the radar leading up to the first-ever Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2024.
