Gene Menez, who hammered the Kentucky Derby exacta and trifecta for a $1,045 payout, reveals his 2025 Belmont Stakes bets and 2025 Belmont Stakes betting strategy for Saratoga Race Course

The final race of the 2025 Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes, is set to unfold on Saturday. There will be no Triple Crown winner this year, though fans have known that since early May. Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty was held out of the Preakness Stakes by trainer Bill Mott so that the team could focus strictly on the Belmont.

No, there won't be a chance to see the first Triple Crown winner since Justify in 2018, but we'll get the next-best thing: a rematch between the winners of the Kentucky Derby (Sovereignty) and the Preakness Stakes (Journalism) with the latter hoping to avenge a runner-up finish at Churchill Downs.