Belmont Stakes 2020: Post position stats for 9f races at Belmont
Races on the main track going 1 1/8 miles at Belmont Park aren't that common. It’s not a configuration used often at the Elmont, N.Y. track.
In fact, the nine furlong Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on Saturday will be the first race of that type contested this season. Having statistics that relate to those types of races can be helpful to horseplayers.
Ed DeRosa, director of marketing for Brisnet tweeted a chart of all the races run at Belmont Park going 1 1/8 miles on dirt this century with field sizes of 9, 10 or 11.
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This edition of the Belmont Stakes drew a field of 10, will be the first leg of the Triple Crown, and was cut back to nine furlongs. It will definitely be a Belmont Stakes talked about for a long time.
The Peter Pan (G3), a stakes race traditionally run in the spring at Belmont Park is contested at nine furlongs on the dirt. Since, like the Belmont, it is restricted to horses 3-years-old, the Peter Pan is a race that can be used for some kind of comparison.
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Over the last 10 runnings of the Peter Pan, posts No. 1 through No. 4 have been winning posts in seven of those 10 races, however the Peter Pan field field size was six or less in four of the last 10 runnings.
| Year | Winner | Post Position | Field Size |
| 2019 | Global Campaign | No. 3 | five |
| 2018 | Blended Citizen | No. 4 | six |
| 2017 | Timeline | No. 2 | six |
| 2016 | Unified | No. 7 | eight |
| 2015 | Madefromlucky | No. 2 | five |
| 2014 | Tonalist | No. 4 | seven |
| 2013 | Freedom Child | No. 1 | nine |
| 2012 | Mark Valeski | No. 5 | ten |
| 2011 | Alternation | No. 6 | ten |
| 2009 | Charitable Man | No. 3 | ten |
Note: No Peter Pan in 2010