SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0One thing about the Triple Crown: Fans do not get cheated, at least when it comes to the number of races on the big day.<\/p>\n
Just as Churchill Downs did for the Kentucky Derby<\/a> and Laurel Park did two weeks later for the Preakness, Saratoga Race Course has scheduled 14 races Saturday, highlighted by the Belmont Stakes<\/a>. It\u2019s the third and final year the Belmont will be run at the upstate New York track while Belmont Park is being rebuilt.<\/p>\n While Laurel started its card at 7:30 a.m. PDT, the Saratoga card follows Churchill\u2019s schedule and begins at 8 a.m. PDT, or 11 a.m. on the East Coast. And, just like the other two headline races, the Belmont is scheduled to start at 4:04 p.m. PDT, or 7:04 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n It will be the 13th race of the day, with official post time listed at four minutes past the hour.<\/p>\n The biggest difference Saturday from the Derby and Preakness is where fans can watch the races. Fox, not NBC, has the rights to the Belmont.<\/p>\n The first seven races can be seen on FS2 as part of the New York Racing Assn.\u2019s regular \u201cAmerica\u2019s Day at the Races\u201d program, which starts at 7:30 a.m. PDT and continues until noon. The eighth race, at 12:25 p.m. PDT, also will be covered by that crew but will air on Fox.<\/p>\n The network\u2019s official Belmont show begins at 1 p.m. and continues until 4:30. Curt Menefee again is the host, with analysts Tom Amoss and Richard Migliore, plus handicappers Jonathan Kinchen and Chris Fallica, with other contributors such as Charissa Thompson and Tom Rinaldi.<\/p>\n Thompson also will host an alternate telecast geared for horseplayers from 1-4:30 on FS1.<\/p>\n The last of Belmont\u2019s 14 races is set to begin just past 5 p.m. PDT, or 8 p.m. in the East. But don\u2019t worry \u2026 FS2 will carry that and it won\u2019t interrupt the Belmont Stakes post-race coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0One thing about the Triple Crown: Fans do not get cheated, at least when it comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[143089,7911,143090,71733,58481,143091,125857,77886,11154,11592,23877,48,52,51,133331,47,50,49,19904,133328,2211],"class_list":["post-349556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-m-pdt","tag-belmont","tag-belmont-stakes","tag-big-day","tag-card","tag-charissa-thompson","tag-churchill-downs","tag-east-coast","tag-fan","tag-fox","tag-kentucky-derby","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laurel-park","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-p-m-pdt","tag-preakness","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}