Saratoga showdown | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, shown during a workout earlier this week at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., will race against Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey in Saturday’s 156th running of the Belmont Stakes. It marks the first time since 2013 that the winners of the first two legs of the Triple Crown have raced against one another in the third leg.
(AP/Julia Nikhinson) — Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, shown during a workout earlier this week at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., will race against Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey in Saturday’s 156th running of the Belmont Stakes. It marks the first time since 2013 that the winners of the first two legs of the Triple Crown have raced against one another in the third leg. (AP/Julia Nikhinson)

Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year.

The Belmont Stakes is taking place at venerable Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Spings, N.Y., for the first time in the venue's vaunted 161-year history. And while there is no chance at a 14th Triple Crown champion, the third leg features the winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes for the first time since 2013.

Five weeks since Mystik Dan finished a nose ahead of Sierra Leone in the Derby and three weeks since he was second to Seize the Grey in the Preakness, all three are in the 10-horse field in the Belmont for a rematch showdown in front of a sellout crowd of 50,000.

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