No Triple Crown will be on the line Saturday when the starting gate opens for the 2025 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Horse racing fans will get the next best thing, thou

The final leg of the horse-racing Triple Crown takes place on Saturday. There is no anticipation of a Triple Crown, as that dream died once Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty was held out of the Preakness. In addition, the race will take place in upstate New York rather than Belmont Park on Long Island.

The battle for the 2025 Belmont Stakes came down to the same two horses who dueled in the stretch run of the Kentucky Derby last month. And the same outcome occurred. Sovereignty - trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Junior Alvarado - cruised past Journalism to win the 157th running of the Grade 1,