Expert Analysis of the 2026 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga

Kentucky Sports Radio Podcast Network

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Kentucky Derby rivals return to the racetrack for the Belmont Stakes and Kentucky Sports Radio has everything you need to know about the third leg of the Triple Crown. This is not your typical Belmont Stakes. Like the Preakness three weeks ago, this year’s Triple Crown race is away from its home track, firing off in upstate New York at Saratoga instead of on Long Island. It also makes the race shorter by a quarter of a mile. Instead of the 12-furlong marathon, for the third-straight year the Belmont will be the same distance as the Derby, the classic distance of 1 1/4 miles. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	The third and final leg of the Triple Crown has arrived.
0:11.8	The Belmont Stakes is this Saturday at Saratoga Racecourse.
0:15.2	I'm Nick Rausch, and our favorite friend this time of the year has joined us once again.
0:20.5	You might know him as Peter Thomas Fortinale.
0:22.4	I'll simply call them PTF from In The Money Media.
0:25.3	Check them out at In The Money Podcast.com.
0:27.8	PTF, happy Belmont week.
0:30.7	It's this, how is this race?
0:35.2	How does it feel?
0:36.2	Because it's in your neck of the woods, but it's, it's different. Again, we're different.
0:40.9	It's in the wrong. It's in the wrong right neck of the woods, as it were. The third and final leg of the triple crown. Third and final Belmont at Saratoga. I can't wait. as much as I love Saratoga, the Belmont
0:51.0	Steaks. It's supposed to be run at Belmont, of course.
0:53.5	And Belmont being redone,
0:55.4	it'll be ready for next year.
0:57.4	It'll be ready for this fall.
0:59.0	And I can't wait for one. It's going to be so great to have racing, exciting, top class,
1:04.5	racing back at Belmont Park. And, but hey, this is a, it's been a fun, weird weird little special thing a little preview of one of the
1:14.3	great meets of the year up at saratoga and and it's fun too but i for one am ready for it to come
1:19.2	back where it belongs that'll happen next year but meanwhile what a couple days of racing we have in
1:24.3	front of us you're exactly right um i it was one of those you know, I want to do the triple crown one year just to
1:31.5	knock them all out.
1:33.5	That's kind of a bucket list thing for me.
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