all in Triple Crown

Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from the 156th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and other major action that was part of an enormously successful Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.

In a Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets sure to linger as a treasured memory for residents of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for generations to come, 17.70-1 longshot Dornoch pulled a stunning upset by fending off surging Mindframe by half a length Saturday before an electrified crowd at

Fans flocked to Saratoga Race Course June 8 for the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets.

There are millions of words that can be used to describe the intense emotions rolled into a classic rivalry.

Yet there’s just one word, with only three letters, that stamps certain athletic battles as those rare confrontations that can withstand the test of time and grow even more legendary with each passing generation.

And.

It’s that simple.

Whenever you cannot name one participant without the reflexive action of adding that “and” for the second one, you know you have something truly special.

Yankees and Red Sox.

Celtics and Lakers.

Leave it to Mike Repole to do something out of the ordinary as the 2024 Triple Crown season comes to a historic end.

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