The New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) announced its full slate of Belmont Stakes Racing Festival highlights on Monday. Below is the full itinerary.

Following a June 1 breeze over the Saratoga Race Course main track, Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism will be entered in the June 7 Belmont Stakes (G1), according to trainer Michael McCarthy.

The 157th running of the Belmont will take place on Saturday, June 7, and as big as the Belmont is as a standalone event on the annual racing calendar, it’s one part of a Belmont Stakes Racing Festival that will offer fans a cavalcade of stakes featuring many of the best racehorses in the country.

Journalism, winner of the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, will look to avenge his runner-up effort to Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby when the foes rematch in

The other horses to win the Belmont off of three weeks' rest since 2000 are 2008 victor Da' Tara, who entered the Belmont off a runner-up finish in the Barbaro Stakes on the Preakness undercard; and 2002 winner Sarava, who won that same race on the Preakness undercard when it was called the Sir Barton Stakes.

For the second straight year, the final jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown will be contested over the venerable dirt surface at Saratoga Race Course. The 157th running of the Belmont Stakes will take place Saturday at the Spa,

Belmont Stakes is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing betting puzzles in recent memory. With a change in venue and distance, fresh contenders bypassing the