We polled 16 experts to get their top horse racing picks for Saturday's Belmont Stakes 2025 from Saratoga Race Course

The 1.5-mile race will feature racehorses Sovereignty and Journalism, the winners of the 2025 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, respectively. Journalism had been the odds favorite (4-1) heading into the Derby, while Sovereignty entered the race at 9-1 odds, but Sovereignty gained the edge in the final moments on the muddy Churchill Downs track.

The track at the old Belmont Park was a mile-and-a-half oval, the only one of that length in the country and one perfectly suited to the Belmont Stakes’ 12 furlongs (a furlong is an eighth of a mile). That will remain unchanged when Belmont reopens.