Belmont Contenders: Then and Now
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Contenders in this year’s Belmont Stakes have all amassed impressive résumés leading up to this year’s edition of the final jewel of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park; but before they were stars on the racetrack, they were unnamed foals playing in fields.
Thanks to The Jockey Club, the breed registry for American Thoroughbreds that you see running at tracks every day, we’ve tracked down baby pictures of the probable runners in this year’s Belmont Stakes so you can see how far they’ve come. The signs in some of the images indicate the foal's dam (mother) and year of birth for identification, since the foals were unnamed at the time.
All photos of adult horses courtesy of Eclipse Sportswire unless otherwise indicated.
American Pharoah - Then
Now
Carpe Diem - Then
Now
Photo by Coady Photography
Conquest Curlinate - Then
Now (gray)
Photo by Four Footed Fotos
Frammento - Then
Now
Photo by Melissa Bauer-Herzog
Frosted - Then
Now
Keen Ice - Then
Now
Madefromlucky - Then
Now
Materiality - Then
Now
Mubtaahij - Then
Photo courtesy of Garçon Guillaume
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller/America's Best Racing
Tale of Verve - Then
Now
Photo by Coady Photography