The 2024 Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course with Belmont Park undergoing renovations. Because of the change in venue, Saturday's race will be contested at 1 1/4 miles instead of the traditional 1 1/2. Kentucky Derby runner-up Sierra Leone is the 9-5 favorite in the 2024 Belmont Stakes odds and comes into the race with added rest after sitting out the Preakness Stakes. Other 2024 Belmont Stakes contenders include Mindframe (7-2), Mystik Dan (5-1), Seize the Grey (8-1) and Resilience (10-1). Post time for the 156th Belmont Stakes is at 6:41 p.m. ET. The latest 2024 Belmont Stakes weather forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures around 70 all day.

Before locking in any 2024 Belmont Stakes bets, you NEED to see what longtime horse racing guru Jody Demling has to say.

A fixture in the horse racing world who has been writing about, talking about and betting on races for years, Demling enters the 2024 Belmont Stakes having nailed the Derby-Oaks double 11 of the last 16 years! He also predicted the winner of the Belmont Stakes four of the last six years and called 10 of the last 20 Preakness winners, including 2023 when he hit the winner, exacta, trifecta and superfecta as well as the trifecta in 2024! Anyone who has followed him is WAY UP!

Demling has now analyzed the 2024 Belmont Stakes field and locked in his picks and predictions for Sierra Leone, Mystik Dan and Seize the Grey. Trained by Chad Brown, Sierra Leone won the Risen Star and Blue Grass Stakes before finishing second by a nose in the Kentucky Derby. Seize the Grey is coming off a victory in the Preakness Stakes and has secured four wins and three third-place finished in 10 career starts. Mystik Dan won the Kentucky Derby by a nose and is coming off a runner-up showing at the Preakness.

Demling has locked in his picks for all three horses and is especially high on an underdog who will be "right there" in the end! If you include this dark-horse in your 2024 Belmont Stakes picks, you could be looking at a COLOSSAL payday. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any 2024 Belmont Stakes bets of your own. 

Who wins the 2024 Belmont Stakes, where do Sierra Leone, Mystik Dan, and Seize the Grey finish, and which EPIC longshot could win it all? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Jody Demling's Belmont Stakes picks and see which HUGE longshot contends, all from the expert who has nailed the Belmont winner four of the last six years!