The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred pony race hung on the first or second Saturday in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Belmont Park is known as "The Championship Track" in light of the fact that about each significant American hero in dashing history has contended on the course. Belmont Park, with its huge, wide, clearing turns and long homestretch, is viewed as one of the most attractive racetracks.It is a 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) horse race, open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings convey a load of 126 pounds (57 kg); fillies convey 121 pounds (55 kg). The race, nicknamed The Test of the Champion, and The Run for the Carnations, is the third and last leg of the Triple Crown and is held five weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes. The 1973 Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown champ Secretariat holds the mile and a half stakes record (which is additionally a track and world record on earth) of 2:24