{"id":156085,"date":"2025-06-04T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156085\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:06:47","slug":"2025-belmont-stakes-horse-racing-morning-line-odds-post-positions-jockeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156085\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Belmont Stakes &#8211; Horse racing morning line odds, post positions, jockeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew there would be not be a Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. But there will still be drama at the Belmont Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s race will feature the much-anticipated rematch between Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and Preakness winner Journalism. Sovereignty didn&#8217;t run in the Preakness after finishing 1 1\/2 lengths ahead of Journalism in the opening leg of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Journalism, who drew the No. 7 post position for the Belmont, was the morning-line favorite at 8-5, followed closely by Sovereignty at 2-1 from the No. 2 post.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/horse-racing\/story\/_\/id\/45438349\/journalism-opens-belmont-stakes-favorite-sovereignty-second-choice\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/r1501739_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 157th Belmont Stakes will be run at Saratoga in Upstate New York for a second straight year while Belmont Park is being rebuilt. Post time for Saturday&#8217;s main event is 7:04 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the morning-line odds, trainers and jockeys for the final leg of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Belmont Stakes field1. Hill Road (10-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Chad Brown<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Irad Ortiz Jr.<\/p>\n<p>2. Sovereignty (2-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Bill Mott<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Junior Alvarado<\/p>\n<p>3. Rodriguez (6-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Bob Baffert<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Mike Smith<\/p>\n<p>4. Uncaged (30-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Todd Pletcher<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Luis Saez<\/p>\n<p>5. Crudo (15-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Todd Pletcher<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> John Velazquez.<\/p>\n<p>6. Baeza (4-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> John Shirreffs<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Flavien Prat<\/p>\n<p>7. Journalism (8-5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Michael McCarthy<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Umberto Rispoli<\/p>\n<p>8. Heart of Honor (30-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> Jamie Osborne<br \/><strong>Jockey:<\/strong> Saffie Osborne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We already knew there would be not be a Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622185102766248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}