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It was just six days before the 2025 Florida Derby, on March 23, when jockey Junior Alvarado’s dream to finally win the Kentucky Derby nearly ended. The 38-year-old veteran suffered a slightly fractured scapula when his mount, the Bill Mott-trained Term, fell after suffering a heart attack less than a quarter-mile into a maiden race on the turf at Gulfstream Park.
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All-sources single-race betting on the Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York was up 5 percent compared to betting in the same pools last year, according to charts of the races.
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The fresh 3-year-old - and now undoubtedly the best 3-year-old - won the Belmont Stakes.
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Curlin ran with distinction through the three Triple Crown races in 2007. He finished third in the Kentucky Derby in just his fourth career start, won the Preakness Stakes, and finished a hard-fought second to fellow champion Rags to Riches in the Belmont Stakes. On Saturday, his son Journalism, who has helped cement Curlin’s reputation as one of the most consistent active sires in the American classics, will become the only member of his crop to start in all three 2025 Triple Crown races.
Join Daily Racing Form's Andrew Beyer, Steven Crist, and Brad Free as they discuss the 2025 Belmont Stakes and Metropolitan Handicap, providing selections and analysis.
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Five years after Authentic's glorious 3-year-old campaign, fate has also dictated that Rodriguez, from the first crop of Authentic, will emerge late on the Triple Crown scene.
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Logic would suggest Journalism is apt to regress some coming into Saturday's Belmont Stakes, considering all the obstacles he had to overcome and the taxing effort it took to win the Preakness. But there certainly was no evidence to support that theory after watching the Kentucky Derby runner-up work over a main track officially listed as good with jockey Umberto Rispoli aboard Sunday.
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Fierceness and White Abarrio will line up side by side for their showdown in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap at Saratoga.
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Journalism, who on May 17 won the Preakness two weeks after finishing second to Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby, was confirmed as a starter for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes at Saratoga after he worked a half-mile Sunday in 47.50 seconds, per Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch, over Saratoga’s main track.
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The five-day Belmont Stakes Festival really kicks into high gear on Friday with the first of two consecutive 14-race programs at Saratoga. The card includes six graded stakes topped by the Grade 1 Acorn for 3-year-old fillies that features the local debut of the undefeated Kentucky Oaks winner Good Cheer.
