2025 Belmont Stakes Horses, Jockeys, Morning-Line Odds, Post Positions
The Triple Crown of horse racing concludes at the world-famous Saratoga Race Course for the second consecutive year with the 2025 Belmont Stakes. The final jewel of the Triple Crown will return to its traditional home in Elmont, New York next year when the renovation of Belmont Park is complete.
Unfortunately, there will be no Triple Crown winner this year because the 2025 Kentucky Derby champion, Sovereignty, skipped the Preakness Stakes to prepare for the Belmont. He is the second betting choice (2-1) behind the winner of four graded stakes races, including the Preakness, Journalism (8-5), who was also the betting favorite at the Kentucky Derby.
Traditionally, the Belmont Stakes is a 1.5-mile race. However, it's been shortened to 1.25 miles on the Saratoga dirt track. This is an eight-horse field between the best three-year-olds in the world running for a $2 million purse at 7:04 p.m. ET Saturday, June 7 on FOX.
2025 Belmont Stakes Post Positions, Morning-Lines
1. Hill Road
- Morning-line (ML): 10-1
- Record (Starts-Win-Place-Show): 5-2-0-2
- Jockey: Irad Ortiz
- Trainer: Chad Brown
2. Sovereignty
- ML: 2-1
- Record: 6-3-2-0
- Jockey: Junior Alvarado
- Trainer: William Mott
Sovereignty crosses the finish line to win the 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville. (Photo credit: Timothy D. Easley/Special to the Courier Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
3. Rodriguez
- ML: 6-1
- Record: 5-2-2-1
- Jockey: Mike Smith
- Trainer: Bob Baffert
4. Uncaged
- ML: 30-1
- Record: 4-2-0-0
- Jockey: Luis Saez
- Trainer: Todd Pletcher
5. Crudo
- ML: 15-1
- Record: 3-2-0-0
- Jockey: John Velazquez
- Trainer: Todd Pletcher
6. Baeza
- ML: 4-1
- Record: 5-1-2-1
- Jockey: Flavien Pratt
- Trainer: John A. Shirreffs
Journalism wins the 150th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo credit: Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)
7. Journalism
- ML: 8-5
- Record: 7-5-1-1
- Jockey: Umberto Rispoli
- Trainer: Michael W. McCarthy
8. Heart of Honor (GB)
- ML: 30-1
- Record: 7-2-4-0
- Jockey: Saffie Osborne
- Trainer: Jamie Osborne
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