Belmont Stakes Odds

Belmont Stakes Odds for Saturday’s final leg of the 2008 Triple Crown has Big Brown as the firm favourite to be the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the most coveted prize in Thoroughbred Racing, the Triple Crown. Big Brown is certain to be all the rage amongst people looking to place a bet on the race and it will be a brave man who takes him on to get beat. The Richard Dutrow trained Colt won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby and most recently the Preakness Stakes, in impressive fashion by a combined winning distance of ten lengths over many of his rivals that will once again attempt to upset the odds at Belmont Park on Saturday.

Latest Beltmont Stakes Betting with international bookmaker Bet365

It will take a very special horse to beat Big Brown and the nearest rival in the betting is Casino Drive, who is son of Mineshaft and from the bloodline of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. However, with only two runs to his name, inexperience could cost Casino Drive against the five times unbeaten Big Brown. Denis of Cork is the third favourite in the Belmont Stakes betting and the fact that he has over eight lengths to find with Big Brown on Kentucky Derby form, suggests that this really is a two horse race.

With the possibility that America’s thirty year wait for a new Triple Crown winner could come to end on Saturday; media attention on the Belmont Stakes is set to be huge as too is the betting interest in the race. Big Brown is certain to be the horse that the public on both sides of the Atlantic will be backing to win the race so they can say they backed the winner of the Triple Crown. It promises to be a thrilling occasion and with the potential to witness history in the making, the 2008 Belmont Stakes is not a race to be missed.

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