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The 2011 Belmont Stakes betting race is right around the corner, and there will be a ton of familiar faces this weekend as several horses that competed in this year’s Kentucky Derby will take to the track at Belmont Park for the final leg of the Triple Crown. Derby winner Animal Kingdom will be the 2-1 favorite to win the race and become the 12th horse in history to complete the Derby/Belmont sweep, but in order to do so it will have to beat out the horse that spoiled its shot at the Triple Crown as Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford also runs in the field.

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Animal Kingdom 2-1

There is no denying that Animal Kingdom is the horse to beat for this weekend’s sports betting race, and regardless of how it runs it will be a bittersweet end. After all, even if trainer Graham Motion’s horse finishes first at the Belmont Stakes it will come up a half-length short of becoming the first horse in decades to complete the Triple Crown sweep.

Nadal (N.1), the defending champion, won 7-5, 7-6 (7 / 3), 5-7, 6-1 Roger Federer (N.3), this Sunday at Roland Garros in the final the French Open tennis, and won his sixth Grand Slam title on clay, matching the Swede Bjorn Borg's record.

With this result, the Spanish not only matched the legendary Norse, but also won his fourth final of the Swiss in this test, on the same stage of the central court Philippe Chatrier.

The 25 years old, has in his record 10 Grand Slam titles, while his defeated on that occasion, 29, holds the absolute record of 16.

Roger Federer, world number three, imposed their superiority to finish winning 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 to twenty-seeded Serbian Janko Tipsarevic on Friday in the knockout phase of the tennis tournament of Roland Garros.

Federer, champion in the 2009 edition and eliminated last year in the quarter-final opponent will round the winner of the match between Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka (N.14) and Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (N.17).

The ease with which the Swiss being driven forward by their parties in contrast to the problems being experienced by the Spanish Rafael Nadal, who has suffered in the first two rounds, especially in the first against American Gael Monfils, before which needed five sets .

After leaving the Spanish Feliciano Lopez and Frenchman Maxime Teixeira, Federer was facing a comfortable as Tipsarevec player, seeded 29, and with whom they already had problems in the Australia Open 2008, where the Swiss had to win 10-8 in the fifth set.