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A few three-year-old thoroughbred horses earned their owners some big-time cash at the final leg of the Triple Crown, but only Sovereignty will come away with the top prize. While it's not the biggest of the three major horse races, June's Belmont Stakes still comes with its financial rewards. The 157th edition of the event, which was at Saratoga in 2025, still ranks among the richest horse races in North America. Here's what to know about the financial rewards for the 2025 Belmont Stakes. 📲 Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp What is the Belmont Stakes purse in 2025? The Belmont Stakes purse is $2 million in 2025, the same total the competition offered in 2024. How much money does the Belmont Stakes winner get? Sovereignty, the winner of the Belmont Stakes, receives $1.2 million , and there's a significant drop-off from there. The champion receives 60 percent of the purse. Belmont Stakes prize money breakdown for 2025 ...

Fox’s coverage of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes included several prominent figures from the network’s coverage of other sports, like NFL studio analyst Terry Bradshaw. That frustrated viewers of the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. In recent seasons , Bradshaw has struggled through NFL highlights on several instances. So, it seemed likely that Bradshaw would have some struggles while discussing the Belmont. And that’s exactly what happened. The most notable moment, perhaps, came when Bradshaw made the Riders Up call, calling it the 137th Belmont Stakes. Bradshaw was 20 years off, as the 2025 Belmont Stakes was the 157th in history. Of course, that kind of thing can happen. Bradshaw is human, humans are imperfect and imperfect beings make mistakes. But the greater question was, why was Bradshaw, an NFL Hall of Famer and longtime NFL analyst, such a prominent part of Fox’s coverage for a big horse racing event? I just tu...

He didn't win the Triple Crown, but Sovereignty reigns as the supreme racehorse of 2025. After being held out of the Preakness Stakes on May 17, the Kentucky Derby winner returned in style to claim the Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga in New York. Sovereignty is the first Derby winner to intentionally skip the Preakness and return to win the Belmont. Just as he did at Churchill Downs, the horse trained by Bill Mott and jockeyed by Junior Alvarado chased down the favored Journalism in the final stretch, accelerating in the last 1/2 mile to cross the finish line first and win $1.2 million . 📲 Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp The question will always remain as to whether Sovereignty could have won the Triple Crown, but his month of rest certainly looked like it helped on Saturday. Capturing two legs of arguably the most difficult feats in sports will still put the horse in the history books. For the second year in a row, the Belmont Sta...

He didn't win the Triple Crown, but Sovereignty reigns as the supreme racehorse of 2025. After being held out of the Preakness Stakes on May 17, the Kentucky Derby winner returned in style to claim the Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga in New York. Sovereignty is the first Derby winner to intentionally skip the Preakness and return to win the Belmont. Just as he did at Churchill Downs, the horse trained by Bill Mott and jockeyed by Junior Alvarado chased down the favored Journalism in the final stretch, accelerating in the last 1/2 mile to cross the finish line first and win $1.2 million . 📲 Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp The question will always remain as to whether Sovereignty could have won the Triple Crown, but his month of rest certainly looked like it helped on Saturday. Capturing two legs of arguably the most difficult feats in sports will still put the horse in the history books. For the second year in a row, the Belmont Sta...

Sovereignty has won the 157th annual Belmont Stakes, earning $1.2 million in prize money. With NFL icon Terry Bradshaw giving the "Riders Up!" command at the Saratoga Race Course, the 2025 Triple Crown has officially come to an end after Sovereignty won the 151st annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs , and Journalism raced to victory in the Preakness Stakes on May 17. Journalism has been the major favorite for all three races in the Triple Crown, but was outclassed by Sovereignty in the opening contest on May 3 and again on June 7. Sovereignty's jockey, Junior Alvarado, was hit with a $62,000 fine and suspended for two races for using his whip eight times after Kentucky. Alvarado has since appealed the ruling despite exceeding the six-whip maximum, after filing a report with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA). READ MORE: U.S. Open organizers make announcement after Br...

Sovereignty has won the 157th annual Belmont Stakes, earning $1.2 million in prize money. With NFL icon Terry Bradshaw giving the "Riders Up!" command at the Saratoga Race Course, the 2025 Triple Crown has officially come to an end after Sovereignty won the 151st annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs , and Journalism raced to victory in the Preakness Stakes on May 17. Journalism has been the major favorite for all three races in the Triple Crown, but was outclassed by Sovereignty in the opening contest on May 3 and again on June 7. Sovereignty's jockey, Junior Alvarado, was hit with a $62,000 fine and suspended for two races for using his whip eight times after Kentucky. Alvarado has since appealed the ruling despite exceeding the six-whip maximum, after filing a report with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA). READ MORE: U.S. Open organizers make announcement after Br...