Belmont Stakes

Wagering Information for Belmont Stakes Day

• What: The 141st Belmont Stakes
• Where: Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
• When: Saturday, June 6, 2009
• Purse: $1,000,000
• Distance: 1 1/2 miles
• Post time: 6:40 ET.
• Stakes record: 2:24 by Secretariat in 1973

Television schedule
ESPN: 12 noon ET to 5:00 ET
ABC: 5:00 ET to 7:00 ET

Belmont Stakes Day post time 11:35 ET

Wagering options:

Win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, and superfecta on all races.

Daily double wagering on races 1-12

Quinella wagering on races 2 and 4.

Pick 3 wagering on races 1-11

Pick 4 wagering starts on races 2, 8, and 10 (Race 8 starts a $1 million guaranteed Pick 4)
The $1 million Pick 4, in which the player must correctly select the winners of four straight races, begins with the eighth race and includes race 10, the Woodford Reserve Manhattan, and the 1½-mile Belmont Stakes.

Pick 6 wagering starts in race 6 with a $1 million guarantee
The $1 million Pick 6, in which the player must correctly select the winners of six straight races, begins with race No. 6 on the 13-race card and concludes with the 141st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes. The wager also includes the Grade 2, $250,000 True North Handicap for sprinters, the Grade 1, $400,000 Just A Game for fillies and mares at a mile on the turf, the Grade 1, $300,000 Acorn for three-year-old fillies, the Grade 2, $250,000 Woody Stephens for three-year-olds, and the Grade 1, $400,000 Woodford Reserve Manhattan.

Takeout Information

Win, place, and show: 16%
Daily Double, Quinella, and Exacta: 18.5%
Trifecta, Pick 3, Pick 4 and Superfecta: 26%
Pick 6: 16% (26% on non-carryover days)

Winning Post Positions in Belmont Stakes
(Since 1905)
1:23
2: 11
3: 13
4:9
5: 14
6:7
7:12
8:6
9:4
10:2
11:2

Key contenders in other stakes on Belmont Stakes Day:

$250,000 True North Handicap (G2) for three-year-olds and up at six furlongs: Desert Key, Disco’s Son, Fabulous Strike, Kodiak Kowboy, Per Incanto, Silver Edition and Sixthirteen.

$400,000 Just A Game Stakes (G1) for fillies and mares, 3 and up, at a mile on the Widener turf: Captain’s Lover (SAF), Carribean Sunset (IRE), Diamondrella (GB), Forever Together, Modern Look (GB)and My Princess Jess.

$300,000 Acorn (G1) for three-year-old fillies at a mile: Be Fair, Devotee, Doremifasollatido, Dream Play, Funny Moon, Just Jenda and Justwhistledixie.

$250,000 Woody Stephens (G2) for three-year-olds at seven furlongs: Hello Broadway, Hull, Mr. Fantasy, Munnings, Regal Ransom and This Ones For Phil.

$400,000 Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap (G1) for three-year-olds and up, one mile and a quarter, inner turf course: Better Talk Now, Court Vision, Cowboy Cal, Gio Ponti, Grand Couturier (GB), Interpatation, Lauro (GER) and Premium Gold.