The 2024 Belmont Stakes won’t run at Belmont Park on Long Island, but it remains in New York at an iconic racetrack. Due to construction at Belmont Park, the Belmont Stakes 2024 won’t take place at Belmont Park for the first time since 1967. Instead, the 2024 Belmont Stakes will run at Saratoga Race Course, which opened in 1863 and is considered the oldest racetrack in the country. The 2024 Belmont Stakes date is Saturday, June 8 with post time scheduled for 6:41 p.m. ET. The 2024 Belmont Stakes field features many of the top horses that have been fixtures of the 2024 Triple Crown schedule.
Sierra Leone was the race day favorite at the Kentucky Derby and is the favorite to win the Belmont Stakes 2024. Sierra Leone, who finished second at the Kentucky Derby, is 7-4 in the latest 2024 Belmont Stakes odds. Fierceness, the Kentucky Derby favorite before scratching with a fever, is 3-1 among the 2024 Belmont Stakes contenders, and Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan follows at 5-1. Before making any 2024 Belmont Stakes picks, be sure to see the horse racing predictions and futures bets from SportsLine’s elite horse racing expert Jody Demling.
A fixture in the horse racing world who has been writing about, talking about and betting on races for years, Demling enters the 2024 Belmont Stakes having nailed the winner of the Belmont Stakes four of the last six years, including an exacta in 2022 with Mo Donegal and Nest. He also called Flightline’s win at the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November of that year.
Demling is at his best in the biggest horse races in the world like the Belmont Stakes 2024. In fact, he has hit 11 of the last 16 Derby-Oaks doubles at Churchill Downs. He’s also called 10 of the last 20 Preakness winners, including nailing his Preakness winner, exacta, trifecta and superfecta picks in 2023 and then the trifecta again in 2024. Anyone who has followed him is up huge.
Now, with the 2024 Belmont Stakes approaching, Demling is sharing his picks and 2024 Belmont Stakes predictions over at SportsLine. Go here to see them.
Top 2024 Belmont Stakes predictions
One of Demling’s surprising 2024 Belmont Stakes picks: He is high on Antiquarian, even though he’s a 12-1 longshot. Antiquarian is coming off a victory on May 11 in the Peter Pan Stakes to qualify for the Belmont Stakes. Antiquarian is trained by Todd Pletcher and is expected to be jockeyed by John Velazquez to form one of the most successful trainer/jockey pairings in Triple Crown races.
Pletcher has four Belmont Stakes victories, most recently training Mo Donegal to the 2022 Belmont victory, and Pletcher and Velazquez teamed up in Rags to Riches’ 2007 Belmont Stakes victory. This will be Antiquarian’s first Triple Crown race, but that could play to his advantage since last year’s Belmont Stakes winner, Arcangelo, won the final Triple Crown race without competing in the first two legs and was coming off a win at the Peter Pan Stakes. See which other horses to back at SportsLine.
How to make 2024 Belmont Stakes picks, bets
Demling is also especially high on an underdog, even though he is coming off a bust in his last race. Demling is sharing which horse it is, and is revealing his surprising prediction for Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey, along with his entire projected 2024 Belmont Stakes leaderboard, over at SportsLine.
Which horse wins the Preakness Stakes 2024, where does Seize the Grey finish, and which dark-horse is a must-back? Check out the latest 2024 Belmont Stakes odds below, then visit SportsLine to see Demling’s picks for the Belmont Stakes, all from the expert who nailed 11 Derby-Oaks doubles and just hit the trifecta at the Preakness.
