Dornoch gained the 156th operating of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, beating a handful of contenders broadly believed to have a better probability of successful.
“It was perfect,” jockey Luis Saez stated of Dornoch’s run to fend off Mindframe.
Trainer Danny Gargan were given his first victory in a Triple Crown race.
With two other winners for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, there’s no Triple Crown champion this 12 months. Only 13 horses in horse racing historical past have claimed all 3 races, maximum lately Justify in 2018.
There used to be nonetheless various intrigue heading into the race.
Sierra Leone, educated by way of Chad Brown and jockeyed by way of Flavien Prat, entered the race as the 9/5 favourite. The 3-year-old prior to now gained the Blue Grass Stakes and Risen Star Stakes, and completed 2nd in the Kentucky Derby.
But it used to be Dornoch, with 17-1 odds, that got here out forward, retaining Mindframe and Sierra Leone at bay.
This 3rd leg of the Triple Crown is in most cases held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, however happened Saturday at Saratoga Race Course for the first time because of renovations.
Belmont Park is present process a $455 million renovation to make stronger monitor surfaces, construct a smaller grandstand, and build up open house for lovers.
Saturday’s venue in Saratoga Springs is other in additional than simply title. Belmont Park is administered at the marathon 1 ½-mile distance round the greatest racing oval in America. Saratoga Race Course, by way of comparability, is a shorter distance at 1 ¼ miles, the similar as the Kentucky Derby.
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