Belmont Stakes Festival Offers $11 Million in Stakes Purses

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The Belmont Stakes Festival, which will be held at Saratoga Race Course for the third and final time from June 3 to 7, will feature 25 stakes races worth $11,075,000. Anchoring the festival is the $2-million GI Belmont Stakes, one of 10 Grade I events over the five days of racing in upstate New York. Also on the Belmont's June 6 card is the $1-million GI Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap; $1-million GI Resorts World Casino Manhattan; the $500,000 GI Jaipur Stakes; the $500,000 GI Woody Stephens Stakes; the $500,000 GI Just a Game Stakes and the $400,000 GIII True North Stakes.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will open with a race day dedicated to New York-breds June 3. The New York Showcase Day program will offer six $200,000 events exclusively for horses foaled in the Empire State.

Visit BelmontStakes.com/schedule for the complete schedule.

Tickets and hospitality offerings for the final edition of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday at BelmontStakes.com.

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