06-06-2015, 23:03
(06-06-2015, 20:47)Thurnscoe_OWL Wrote: is the belmont stakes as big as the epsom derby which was also run today?
Didn't have a flutter just know Frankie Dettori won it
The big race over here is the Kentucky Derby, but whichever horse wins that one can go for the Triple Crown which makes the Preakness and Belmont Stakes more important as they are the second and third races in the Triple Crown. American Pharoah won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, so if he wins the Belmont today then he will be the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years. It was last won in 1978 and a previous winner in 1973 was Secretariat, which the movie by that name was about.