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For the sixth year in a row, the three Triple Crown races had different winners as Dornoch dominated the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
The 17-1 colt ran with Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey at the front of a 10-horse field until the turn for home. Dornoch broke away and had enough to hold off the close of runner-up Mindframe.
Dornoch paid $37.40 to win, $17.60 to place and $8.10 to show.
Mindframe paid $6.80 to place and $4.20 to show.
Sierra Leone paid $2.60 to show.
The $2 exacta paid $326.50, and the $1 trifecta paid $473.
The addition of Honor Marie in fourth produced a $3,200.50 payout on a $1 superfecta wager.
Mystik Dan won the Kentucky Derby on May 4 and finished second in the Preakness Stakes on May 18. Mystik Dan was never a factor in the Belmont and finished eighth.
Seize the Grey did not enter the Kentucky Derby but won the Pat Day Mile on May 4 at Churchill Downs, then won the Preakness Stakes. The colt faded to a seventh-place showing on Saturday.
But the favorite for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes was Sierra Leone, who went off at 8-5 with bettors. But the colt got squeezed between Mindframe and Honor Marie coming out of the ninth gate and ran into turbulence again before shaking loose for a stretch run to third.
The victory brought a $1.2 million prize to Dornoch’s owners.
While the victory was the first in the Belmont for trainer Danny Gargan, Dornoch was jockey Luis Saez’s second winner in the Triple Crown’s third jewel. He rode Belmont winner Essential Quality in 2021.
The winner of the Remsen Stakes and the Fountain of Youth Stakes earlier this year, Dornoch was coming off a 10th-place showing in the Kentucky Derby.
Because of renovation work at Belmont Park, the horses ran 1.25 miles instead of the usual 1.5 miles in the 156th Belmont Stakes. The change was made to conform to the track. Saturday’s Belmont Stakes was contested at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Dornoch covered the 10 furlongs in 2 minutes, 1.64 seconds.
The order of finish in the 156th Belmont Stakes was:
1. Dornoch
2. Mindframe
3. Sierra Leone
4. Honor Marie
5. Antiquarian
6. Protective
7. Seize the Grey
8. Mystik Dan
9. The Wine Steward
10. Resilience
Stories by Mark Inabinett
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at@AMarkG1.
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