Belmont Stakes 2015: Post Time, Post Positions and Full TV Coverage Info

It's finally Belmont Stakes day! At 6:50 p.m. ET today, American Pharoah will look to make history as the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

Nipping at his heels are seven other horses, hoping to swoop in, play spoiler, and walk away with the lion's share of a whopping $1.5 million purse.

The majority of you probably know when and where to tune in to watch today's action. If that's the case, then you can probably skip this next section and go straight on to the post positions and race breakdown that follows the general info for today's race.

However, there may be some of you may still be wondering how to tune in and watch one of the greatest three-year-olds in recent memory try and accomplish one of the most difficult feats in all of sports.

If this is you, then stop first in the section below for the when and where for this year's Belmont Stakes,. Then, read on to familiarize yourself with post positions, connections and odds, then join the rest of the group in the last section for a complete breakdown of today's 147th running of the Belmont Stakes.

Let's get started!

2015 Belmont Stakes Info

When: Saturday, June 6

Where: Belmont Park in Elmont, New York

First Post: 11:35 a.m. ET

Belmont Stakes Post Time: 6:50 p.m. ET

Where to Watch: NBC, NBC Sports Network

Live Stream: NBC Live Extra

This is everything you need to know about NBC's planned coverage of the Belmont Stakes. 

Between the two networks—NBC and NBC Sports Network—coverage is planned to span between 2:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. ET. You can also head over to NBC.com and check out the NBC Live Extra live stream of the day's events—click the link above for that.

It's going to be a great day of racing, and you don't want to miss it. Maybe consider bookmarking that live-stream link, or setting an alarm on your phone if you're the forgetful type.

Post Positions, Runners, Odds & More

Post Position	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Odds
1	Mubtaahij	Michael De Kock	Irad Ortiz Jr.	14-1
2	Tale of Verve	Dallas Stewart	Gary Stevens	20-1
3	Madefromlucky	Todd Pletcher	Javier Castellano	14-1
4	Frammento	Nick Zito	Mike Smith	40-1
5	American Pharoah	Bob Baffert	Victor Espinoza	5-7
6	Frosted	Kiaran McLaughlin	Joel Rosario	6-1
7	Keen Ice	Dale Romans	Kent Desormeaux	25-1
8	Materiality	Todd Pletcher	John Velazquez	13-2

This year's field can be split into two halves. The exciting half—Pharoah, Frosted, Materiality and Madefromlucky—and a kinda-sorta underwhelming boring half—Mubtaahij, Frammento, Tale of Verve and Keen Ice.

A case can be made to move Mubtaahij into the exciting group, but the more you look at it, the more it starts to seem like he just beat a weak field in the UAE Derby, and that we're expecting too much out of him in just his second race on American soil. A case can also be made for Keen Ice to slide into that exciting group, but he's only going to sneak in for a piece if the group up front sets an unexpected pace and tires prior to the stretch run.

The top half of the field—Pharoah, Frosted, Materiality and Madefromlucky—is about as good as it gets.

The sure-fire three-year-old champion, American Pharoah, will look to make it seven straight wins dating back to last year's Del Mar Futurity. In the process, the Pioneerof the Nile colt would be the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed last accomplished the feat in 1978.

Frosted and Materiality will be waiting for him to slip up though, and they're undoubtedly the best horses in this race not named American Pharoah.

Frosted ran very well prior to a respectable fourth-place finish in the Derby, logging a victory in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct (shown below).

Sure, the field was weak in the Wood, but the fact that he ran three and four wide around the track shows us that he has it in him to get the distance. Combine that, and his status as one of the very few horses closing into weak Belmont fractions, and you've got a horse who looks well prepared to knock off American Pharoah.

Materiality needs to get out toward the front of the pack. He doesn't necessarily want to set the pace, but if he's able to keep in touch with the leading group, look out. The lightly raced son of Afleet Alex was outstanding in this year's Florida Derby (shown below) but had to settle for a sixth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby after falling behind thanks to a hesitant break from the gate.

If he breaks cleanly and finds himself a nice spot along the rail to stalk from, Materiality should have a big say in the race's final outcome.

Madefromlucky is sort of a dark-horse option in the Belmont. The Lookin at Lucky colt is firmly outside of the top-three selections, but it seems this is more likely the result of unfamiliarity as opposed to an actual indictment on his ability.

The Todd Pletcher-trained colt has twice finished behind American Pharoah—once, a distant fourth, and again as a distant runner-up—but his move to skip prior Triple Crown races in favor of the Grade 2 Peter Pan (shown below) has him in position to come in and win as a 14-1 underdog.

The Peter Pan didn't feature a particularly strong field this year, but it should be noted that his Equibase speed figure outpaced last year's Peter Pan winner, Tonalist. Tonalist, as you well know, went on to win the Belmont Stakes last year, upsetting a Triple Crown hopeful, California Chrome, in the process.

The race figures to be an exciting one no matter who wins, but it would be great for the sport if American Pharoah were to capture the final jewel of racing's Triple Crown.

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