Racing Roundtable: Recapping the 2025 Belmont Stakes Festival

On this week's Racing Roundtable, James Scully, Ashley Anderson, and Vance Hanson discuss all thinks Belmont Stakes Festival from this past weekend at Saratoga.

Foremost among the leading performances was Sovereignty's outstanding win in the Belmont (G1), his second classic victory in five weeks and a more decisive one over Journalism and Baeza. The panel talks about the Belmont race dynamics and what to look for from the this group the rest of the season.

Good Cheer's upset loss to La Cara in the Acorn (G1) is the next topic, as the group tries to make sense of it all and what it means for the three-year-old filly division moving forward.

Finally, the Roundtable talks about the other major performances from the week at Saratoga that caught their fancy, and interestingly focus mostly on the outstanding efforts we saw from both the males and females in the various Grade 1 and Grade 2 sprints on dirt and turf.