U.S. Grade A race well run well in control Elmont, New York ‘s Belmont Park each June . It is a 1.5 -mile (2.4 km) race , hospitable three -year-old is like thoroughbreds . Colts and geldings 126 lbs ( 57 kg) with weight ; fillies 121 pounds ( 55 kg ) took . Race hampion ‘s take a look at the title , the third and final leg of the U.S. Triple Crown . Kentucky Derby , and 3 hours a week between June 5 and June 11 Race Monster well . 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat mile race well and also has a track record in which a demon ( holds five weeks following the 2:24 soil ) record .
The attending at the thoroughbred race ranks fourth in North America, and usually trails solely the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and therefore the Bluegrass State Oaks. The 2004 thoroughbred race John Drew a tv audience of 21.9 million viewers, and had the highest family viewing rate since 1977 once thoroughbred won the Triple Crown.The 146th running of the Belmont Stakes can occur on Sabbatum, June 7, 2014, California Chrome can have the prospect to complete the third leg of the Triple Crown when his victories within the 2014 Kentucky Derby and therefore the 2014 thoroughbred race Stakes.
Chrome is unbowed since jockey Victor Espinoza began riding the colt on Dec. 22, winning 6 races by a combined 271/2 lengths, as well as the Kentucky Derby and therefore the thoroughbred race Stakes. however Espinoza’s record at Belmont Park may be cause for worry because the colt tries to become racing’s twelfth Triple Crown winner in Saturday’s $1.5 million thoroughbred race.
Since he began riding in 1993, Espinoza has won over 3,100 races, while mainly riding on the Southern California circuit, however he’s simply 2-for-67 at Belmont Park, winning the 2001 Champagne Stakes aboard Officer and therefore the 2004 Vosburgh Stakes on Pico Central.“That’s my record?” Espinoza said to the Daily News. “I don’t even grasp. I don’t follow records and I don’t extremely care concerning records. I simply care concerning the horses I ride.”
