What Time Does The 2026 Belmont Stakes Start? What Tv Channel Is It On?

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — One point astir nan Triple Crown: Fans do not get cheated, astatine slightest erstwhile it comes to nan number of races connected nan large day.

Just arsenic Churchill Downs did for nan Kentucky Derby and Laurel Park did 2 weeks later for nan Preakness, Saratoga Race Course has scheduled 14 races Saturday, highlighted by nan Belmont Stakes. It’s nan 3rd and last twelvemonth nan Belmont will beryllium tally astatine nan upstate New York way while Belmont Park is being rebuilt.

While Laurel started its paper astatine 7:30 a.m. PDT, nan Saratoga paper follows Churchill’s schedule and originates astatine 8 a.m. PDT, aliases 11 a.m. connected nan East Coast. And, conscionable for illustration nan different 2 header races, nan Belmont is scheduled to commencement astatine 4:04 p.m. PDT, aliases 7:04 p.m. EDT.

It will beryllium nan 13th title of nan day, pinch charismatic station clip listed astatine 4 minutes past nan hour.

The biggest quality Saturday from nan Derby and Preakness is wherever fans tin watch nan races. Fox, not NBC, has nan authorities to nan Belmont.

The first 7 races tin beryllium seen connected FS2 arsenic portion of nan New York Racing Assn.’s regular “America’s Day astatine nan Races” program, which starts astatine 7:30 a.m. PDT and continues until noon. The eighth race, astatine 12:25 p.m. PDT, besides will beryllium covered by that unit but will aerial connected Fox.

The network’s charismatic Belmont show originates astatine 1 p.m. and continues until 4:30. Curt Menefee again is nan host, pinch analysts Tom Amoss and Richard Migliore, positive handicappers Jonathan Kinchen and Chris Fallica, pinch different contributors specified arsenic Charissa Thompson and Tom Rinaldi.

Thompson besides will big an alternate telecast geared for horseplayers from 1-4:30 connected FS1.

The past of Belmont’s 14 races is group to statesman conscionable past 5 p.m. PDT, aliases 8 p.m. successful nan East. But don’t interest … FS2 will transportation that and it won’t interrupt nan Belmont Stakes post-race coverage.