2021 Belmont Stakes: Post Positions, Morning Line Odds
The 2021 edition of the Belmont Stakes will not have the top two Kentucky Derby finishers, but it will feature the pre-race favorite.
Essential Quality is the 2-1 morning line favorite in the Belmont Stakes, slightly ahead of Preakness Champion, Rombauer, who opens at 3-1. Hot Rod Charlie, third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will make his Big Sandy debut at an opening price of 7-2.
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After falling in the Preakness, Medina Spirit will not participate in the third leg of the Triple Crown. NYRA suspended Bob Baffert’s barn from racing in the state of New York while Churchill Downs continues its investigation into Medina Spirit’s failed post-race drug test. Mandaloun was narrowly outlasted by Medina Spirit in the Derby, yet Brad Cox will not send the Risen Star Stakes winner to New York for the first Saturday in June.
Cox said before Essential Quality fell in the Kentucky Derby that he always believed the horse would run better with more distance. Now that theory can be put to the test in the 1 1/2 miles race against former Derby foes. Post time on Saturday, June 5 is set for 6:49 pm on NBC.
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