{"id":480092,"date":"2026-06-07T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:54:09","slug":"golden-tempo-adds-belmont-to-derby-win-as-devaux-makes-more-history-belmont-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480092\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Tempo adds Belmont to Derby win as DeVaux makes more history | Belmont Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden Tempo won the 158th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, capturing the third leg of the Triple Crown five weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby<\/a> and making more history for trainer Cherie DeVaux.<\/p>\n

With jockey Jose Ortiz aboard, Golden Tempo charged down the stretch at Saratoga Race Course to win the Belmont, holding off Commandment before the finish line at the historic track to win at odds of 6-1. Commandment was second and favorite Renegade third.<\/p>\n

\u201cGolden Tempo is amazing. Jose is amazing,\u201d said DeVaux, who was born in Saratoga Springs and began her training career there. \u201cI think he needed to do this to kind of show that he was meant to win the Derby and that he is a horse that belongs in that conversation of being one of the top three-year-olds.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeVaux, after becoming the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner, is the second in four years to do so at the Belmont. Jena Antonucci won it with Arcangelo<\/a> in 2023. DeVaux is the first woman to win multiple Triple Crown races.<\/p>\n

The pace was not nearly as fast as it was at Churchill Downs, yet Golden Tempo still was able to close in time to win the one-and-one-quarter-mile race in 2:03.49. It didn\u2019t matter, as he was the best in the field of nine horses.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t going to get that setup as he did in the Derby,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cWe all knew that, and I was a little worried about it. He needed some kind of setup. But today, there wasn\u2019t one and he showed up today and won.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the third and final time for the Belmont at Saratoga in upstate New York while its traditional home on the border of Queens and Long Island is getting demolished and rebuilt . The race is set to return to Belmont Park next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so meaningful,\u201d DeVaux said. \u201cA lot of family here. Saratoga, it\u2019s been wonderful to have such a historic race here. … It\u2019s so meaningful because the town gets to have this and celebrate it along with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden Tempo paid $14 to win, $7.32 to place and $3.88 to show. Commandment paid $7.02 to show and $4.08 to place, while Renegade \u2013 the Derby runner-up \u2013 paid $2.52 to place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Tempo won the 158th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, capturing the third leg of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-480092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}