War Will picked up his fourth win over his last six races last month when he emerged victorious in the 144th functioning of the Preakness Stakes. With Tyler Gaffalione once more on the bracket, War of Will seems to add to his heritage with a triumph in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
War of Will is moving off in +225 on the Belmont Stakes odds in Elmont in sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The three-year-old’s remarkable performance in the Preakness left horse racing fans wondering what exactly the Kentucky Derby could have looked like if Maximum Security hadn’t veered from his lane and impeded War of Will’s path in that race. However while the Triple Crown won’t be up for grabs on Saturday, War of Will could turn out to be just the 31st horse in history to win both the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont.Tacitus figures to be the biggest barrier standing in War Will’s way on Saturday going off as the betting favorite on the horse racing odds at +200. After finishing in fourth place in the Kentucky Derby (third via disqualification), Tacitus’s team chosen to maintain the horse from the Preakness to keep him fresh for the Belmont. His 103 Beyer Speed Rating from April’s Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct is tied to the highest speed any horse in this race has run.
The batch of horses sitting behind the two obvious favorites in betting sites are Master Fencer (+700 to win the Belmont Stakes), Bourbon War (+800) and Intrepid Heart (+800). The Japan native Master Fencer showed some fantastic late kick in the Kentucky Derby to move up from 19th place to seventh, and that late kick should serve him well as early leaders lose steam in the final stretches of the Belmont’s one and a half mile trail.
Rounding out the 10-horse field in this year’s Belmont Stakes are Preakness Stakes runner up Everfast (+1000), Sir Winston (+1200), Spinoff (+1200), Tax (+1200), and Joevia (+3300). Tax is the other horse alongside Tacitus that has conducted at a Beyer Speed of 103 earlier, but at the Kentucky Derby this horse did not reveal much finishing in 15th place with a speed rating of just 83.
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