The 154th Belmont Stakes on Saturday got here with no promise of a Triple Crown winner, however that wasn’t uncommon. It’s a uncommon horse that may win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes and nonetheless arrive on the Belmont in high type. Solely 13 horses have received all three races.
Wealthy Strike, the long-shot winner of the Kentucky Derby, wasn’t entered within the Preakness final month, ending his probability on the Triple Crown. However he was again for the Belmont, and followers stuffed the grounds for the possibility to see him add one other victory to his Triple Crown résumé.
Our photographers, Haiyun Jiang, Desiree Rios and Uli Seit, had been at Belmont Park to seize the power of the day, each equine and human.
