Kentucky Derby, run over the 1 ⁄ - mile (2.0 km) dirt track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky Preakness Stakes, run over the 1 ⁄ - mile (1.9 km) dirt track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland Belmont Stakes, run over the 1 ⁄ - mile (2.4 km) dirt track, the longest in U.S. thoroughbred racing, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, just east of the New York City borough of Queens in Nassau County, Long Island
where do the triple crown races take place
Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland Belmont Park in Elmont, New York