The 149th running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park Saturday won’t feature Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming or Preakness Stakes winner Cloud Computing. Even so, 12 horses have entered the race and there are a lot of interesting and potentially difficult components to assessing the chances of the dozen entrants. Five horses ran poorly when last seen five weeks ago in the Derby and hope to turn their form around significantly. That quintet is led by Derby sixth-place finisher Tapwrit, who won the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby in March. Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby winner Gormley ended up ninth in the Derby.
Trying to dissect a wide-open Belmont Stakes
