If the last couple of years are any indication, about 50,000 fans will show up at Belmont Park on Saturday to watch the running of the 143rd Belmont Stakes, the premier race on the New York State calendar.
Belmont can handle a crowd twice the size, but it’s an off year. No horse will run for the Triple Crown, since Animal Kingdom, the long-shot winner of the Kentucky Derby, came up short in the Preakness. Nor does the field appear to include the kind of budding superstars that set the public’s imagination on fire. Sportswriters have been debating whether this year’s crop of 3-year-olds is abysmal or merely lackluster.
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