There are no top favorites in the 2025 Belmont. Instead, there are three co-favorites. The 157th running is the best Belmont in years. And the hardest to bet.

The 2025 Belmont Stakes has a rare but intriguing storyline attached to it. A Triple Crown is not on the line on Saturday at Saratoga, but the winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes are entered into the eight-horse field.

Close your eyes, think of the most memorable editions of the Belmont Stakes of the past 50 or so years, and what do you see? Perhaps Secretariat moving like a machine. Affirmed and Alydar battling with nothing but a head separating them for a mile.