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Between now and October, the focus for many of the top thoroughbreds in the world and their trainers and owners will be racing their way toward a start in one of the 14 races that will make up the 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships. The most sure way of making the field and racing for a share of the $30 million in BC Championships purse money is the "Win And You're In" qualifying series.

All handicapping signs point to favorite Justify winning the 150th Belmont Stakes on Saturday and completing the Triple Crown sweep. But the race is unlikely to be a walk-over with the 1 1/2 mile distance a real test for the full field of 10 colts that will go to the gate. And heavy favorites have come up short in the past.

The US Triple Crown season comes to a close on Saturday with the running of the 150th Belmont Stakes from Belmont Park in New York. For the second time since 2015 a horse has a chance to grab the Triple Crown title, with Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Justify heavily favored to beat nine others to the Belmont wire and cement his name in history.

It's two down and one to go for Justify, as the 2018 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner tries to become the 13th horse to claim the Triple Crown with a win June 9 in the Belmont Stakes. The tough 1 1/2 mile Belmont is known as The Test of the Champion, and 13 horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown but lost the third.

The dirt track at Pimlico Race Course is going to be a sloppy mess, and it appears heavy favorite Justify is all but a lock to cruise to victory in the Preakness Stakes. But despite the terrible weather and seemingly pre-ordained outcome, the show will go on Saturday afternoon, with eight three-year-old colts going to the gate to race for the second leg of the 2018 Triple Crown.

The second leg of the US Triple Crown is set for Saturday from Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, where eight three-year-old colts will line up in the gate and race 1 3/16 miles on the Pimlico dirt for total purse of $1.5 million and the Preakness Stakes title. All eyes will be on Justify as he tries to take another step toward racing immortality.

This Saturday will see the running of the 2018 Preakness Stakes from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Barring any last-minute disaster, it's a given that 2018 Kentucky Derby winner Justify will run in the Preakness as the heavy favorite. Here's a look at the other colts expected to go to the gate and try to deny him the second leg of the Triple Crown.

With what many are calling the deepest field in years, the 144th Kentucky Derby is set to go on Saturday from Churchill Downs. The 1 1/4 mile race on the Churchill dirt features a pair of colts trying to defy race history, a dangerous invader coming over from Europe, and 17 others looking to make their name as Kentucky Derby champion.

After more than 30 qualifying races for the 2018 Kentucky Derby, field is set for the Run for the Roses on Saturday. The top three-year-old colts in North America and one European invader will go to the track to race 1 1/4 miles on the Churchill Downs dirt track, chasing a purse of $2 million. Here's how they'll line up in the gate.