A historic Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday when the starting gate opens for the 2024 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Because of renovations being done at the traditional home of the Belmont, Belmont Park, the final leg of the Triple Crown will be run at Saratoga this year and in 2025. Kentucky Derby runner-up Sierra Leone is the 9-5 favorite in the 2024 Belmont Stakes odds. Mindframe (7-2), Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (5-1) and Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey (8-1) round out the top four choices among the 2024 Belmont Stakes horses. Post time is 6:41 p.m. ET. The latest 2024 Belmont Stakes weather forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures around 70 all day.

With an accomplished field set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you'll want to see what SportsLine writer Gene Menez has to say before making any Belmont Stakes picks or horse racing predictions. Join SportsLine here to get his full Belmont Stakes picks and start winning.

A former reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated, Menez covered an array of sports, including horse racing, for the magazine and its website for almost 14 years. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as SI's handicapper for the Triple Crown races and correctly predicted Super Saver to win the Kentucky Derby in 2010.

In 2015, while writing for Sports on Earth, Menez accurately gave out the Kentucky Derby superfecta (American Pharoah, Firing Line, Dortmund and Frosted), which paid $1,268.20 for $2. Then in 2017, he tweeted out his Kentucky Derby picks, including Always Dreaming to win, and hit the Pick 4, which paid almost $6,900 on a $1 bet. Join SportsLine right here to see his 2024 Belmont Stakes picks.

In a span of seven races last year for SportsLine, he cashed the winner of the Lecomte Stakes, the exacta in the Southwest Stakes ($468), the winner of the Holy Bull Stakes, the winner of the Sam F. Davis Stakes, and the trifecta in the Jenny Wiley Stakes. And last month, he gave out 18-1 Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby. Anyone who has followed him is WAY UP!

Now, Menez has looked at the 2024 Belmont Stakes, made his picks and formulated his bets. Join SportsLine here to see them.

We can tell you that Menez is completely tossing Mystik Dan, even though he won the Kentucky Derby and finished second in the Preakness Stakes. "I think Mystik Dan will be hard-pressed to produce another top-notch effort," Menez told SportsLine. Menez is not using Mystik Dan in any of his wagers.

Instead, Menez's top pick is a horse who will be "right there when the horses hit the wire." He also is high on a double-digit longshot who is coming off a performance that is "better than it looks on paper." He is including these horses in his wagers, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see which horses they are before making any 2024 Belmont Stakes picks of your own!

So who wins the 2024 Belmont Stakes? What big double-digit longshot is a must-back? And how has Menez constructed his wagers? ... Join SportsLine now to get the top 2024 Belmont Stakes picks and bets, all from the expert who gave out Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby!