For most casual horse racing fans and bettors, the season is only three races long: The Triple Crown of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. That’s just the state of the popularity of the sport – once arguably the most popular in the USA – these days. The 151st Belmont Stakes is Saturday from Belmont Park in New York.

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The Belmont can draw huge TV ratings and betting action if a horse is going for the Triple Crown. Twice since 2015 that achievement has been accomplished at the Belmont with Justify last year and American Pharoah in 2015. However, there is no Triple Crown at stake this year in what has been a wild and wacky season.

At the Kentucky Derby, Maximum Security was the original winner but eventually was disqualified – a first at that race. Country House was named the winner. Neither of those two horses ran at the Preakness Stakes and won’t at the Belmont.