Belmont Stakes Racing Guide

The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga features over 25 stakes races across five days of action, headlined by the 157th Belmont Stakes on June 7!

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Date	Channel & Time
Wednesday, June 4, 2025	12:30-6:00 FS2
Thursday, June 5, 2025	12:30-6:00 FS2
Friday, June 6, 2025	11:30-5 FS2 5-6 FOX 6-7:30 FS1 7:30-8 FS2
Saturday, June 7, 2025	10:30-2:30 FS1 2:30-4 FOX 4-7:30 FOX & FS1 7:30-8:15 FS1
Sunday, June 8, 2025	12:30-5:30 FS2

The FOX Family of Networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage & expert analysis of the entire five-day 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival live from Saratoga!

America's Day at the Races - 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Channel 2

May 2025

Race 8

$65,000 Starter Optional Claiming

1 1/8M

Turf

Good

4:43p at Belmont Stakes

Exacta ($1), Trifecta (.50), Super (.10), Double ($1) 8 & 9, Pick 3 ($1) (8-10), Pick 4 (.50) (8-11)

(UP TO $11,310 NYSBFOA) FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD WHICH HAVE STARTED FOR A CLAIMING PRICE OF $50,000 OR LESS AND WHICH HAVE NEVER WON A RACE OTHER THAN MAIDEN OR CLAIMING OR CLAIMING PRICE $40,000 AND WHICH HAVE NEVER WON THREE RACES. Three Year Olds, 120 lbs.; Older, 126 lbs. Non-winners Of A Race At A Mile Or Over In 2025 Allowed 2 lbs. Claiming Price $40,000 (1.5% Aftercare Assessment Due At Time Of Claim Otherwise Claim Will Be Void). (If the Stewards consider it inadvisable to run this race on the turf course, this race will be run at One Mile and One Eighth on the Main Track.) (Rail at 18 feet).