No trainer has more victories in Triple Crown races than Bob Baffert, who enters the 2025 Belmont Stakes on Saturday with 17 Triple Crown race victories. However, the Belmont Stakes has been his least successful of the three legs. The 72-year-old trainer has three Belmont Stakes victories and Rodriguez will be his lone entrant in the 2025 Belmont Stakes field. If Rodriguez gets Baffert his 18th Triple Crown race win, it will become another "first" for Baffert. All of his previous Belmont Stakes winners won a Triple Crown race entering the Belmont Stakes, including two Triple Crown champions, American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018).

Rodriguez is 6-1 in the latest 2025 Belmont Stakes odds. He's behind Journalism, the 8-5 favorite, as well as Sovereignty (2-1) and Baeza (4-1) for the 2025

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