Two-Day Special Wagers Featured During Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) has announced a selection of special wagers to be offered during the five-day 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival to be held from Wednesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 8 at Saratoga Race Course.
Highlighted by the 157th edition of the Grade 1, $2 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on Saturday, June 7, the 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will include 27 stakes races with purses totaling $11,275,000, the richest purses and highest number of stakes offered since the launch of the multi-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival in 2014.
An array of two-day wagers is highlighted by the 'All Dirt' Pick 6, which will open on Friday, June 6 and concludes with the Grade 1, $2 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on Saturday, June 7. The 'All Dirt' Pick 6 will feature a $0.20 base wager and low 15 percent takeout.
The two-day 'All Turf' Pick 5 will offer a $0.50 base and 15 percent takeout, featuring grass racing in all legs beginning Friday and continuing on Belmont Stakes Day. There will also be various two-day Pick 4s and special Doubles across the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.
Two-day 'All-Dirt' Pick 6
The two-day 'All-Dirt' Pick 6 opens on Friday and continues Saturday, ending with a mandatory payout in the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.
The sequence begins on Friday with the Grade 2 Bed o' Roses [Race 6] and Grade 1 Ogden Phipps presented by Ford [Race 9], continuing Saturday with the Grade 3 True North [Race 7], Grade 1 Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap [Race 8] and Grade 1 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun [Race 11], before concluding with the Belmont Stakes in Race 13.
Two-day 'All-Turf' Pick 5
The two-day 'All Turf' Pick 5 opens on Friday with the Grade 1 New York presented by Rivers Casino [Race 12] and the Grade 1 Just a Game presented by Resolute Racing [Race 13], resuming on Saturday with the Grade 1 Jaipur [Race 9], the Grade 3 Pennine Ridge [Race 10] and ending with the Grade 1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan in Race 12.
Additional Belmont Stakes Racing Festival wagers on offer include:
Two-day Pick 4
There will be three two-day Pick 4s across the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, starting on Wednesday with Race 9 [Mount Vernon] and Race 10, ending on Thursday with Race 1 [Listed Tremont] and Race 2.
The same set-up is offered back up on Thursday with a Pick 4 that begins with the final two races, Race 9 [Grade 3 Poker] and Race 10, the sequence concluding with Friday's first two events Races 1-2.
Friday will feature a similar format with a two-day Pick 4 starting in Race 13 [Grade 1 Just a Game presented by Resolute Racing] and Race 14, finishing with Belmont Stakes Day's Races 1-2. The above two-day Pick 4 sequences include a $0.50 minimum, 24% takeout and a mandatory payout.
Doubles
There are four special 'Double' wagers on offer that conclude with the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets offering a $5 minimum and 18.5% takeout. These wagers begin with the Grade 1 DK Horse Acorn [Race 11] and Grade 1 New York presented by Rivers Casino [Race 12] on Friday, and Saturday's offerings start with the Grade 1 Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap [Race 8] and the Grade 1 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun [Race 11].
Epsom-Belmont Double
There will be one additional special 'Double' with overseas action from the Group 1 Epsom Derby at Epsom Downs Racecourse [Race 5 on June 7] and the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets, offered at a $2 minimum with 18.5% takeout.
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The traditional $1 Pick 6 will be offered on each day of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. On Saturday, it includes five Grade 1s among six graded events [Races 8-13], concluding with the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.
Belmont Stakes Day will feature six Pick 5 wagers with all but the opening and late Pick 5 offering a mandatory payout. In addition to the traditional early and late Pick 5s, there will be sequences from Races 3-7, 5-9, 7-11 and 9-13.
An additional middle Pick 5 wager with a mandatory payout will be offered on Wednesday, June 4 [Races 4-8] and Thursday, June 5 [Races 3-7]. While the June 6 Friday card will include three additional middle Pick 5s [Races 3-7, 5-9, and 7-11] with mandatory payouts. Sunday's nine-race card will feature a middle Pick 5 [Races 3-7] on Closing Day of the five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.
Television coverage of Belmont Stakes Day will air across the FOX Sports family of networks beginning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern [FS1] prior to national broadcast coverage on FOX beginning at 2:30 p.m. For the complete Belmont Stakes Racing Festival television schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont-stakes/event-info/tv-schedule/.
NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, and the best way to bet every race of the four-day meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.
This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.
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