Triple Crown won by American Pharoah!!!

[elleng]

[shenmue]

1. Holy crap!

[Jefferson23]

2. Gorgeous animals, every one. Congrats to the winnah. n/t

[phylny]

3. I'm also very relieved all the horses stayed healthy!

Beautiful horse, beautifully ridden.

[Feron]

17. Except for the horse that died..

in one of the earlier undercard races.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/horseracing/belmont-stakes/helwan-euthanized-after-breakdown-at-belmont-park-1.10515360

Horses are beautiful animals, but horse racing is awful.

[phylny]

19. Ugh. I didn't know this. Awful. n/t

[aikoaiko]

4. I really enjoyed the race

[yuiyoshida]

5. OUTSTANDING

[Bobbie Jo]

8. Beautiful animal.

[hifiguy]

14. That is a fine and intelligent looking horse.

He knows he's good.

[GreatGazoo]

6. a once in a generation horse

and we likely just saw the last race he will run

[CTyankee]

7. that's ok. It's all he has to do. Now it's pasture time with a little mating time mixed in

...he'll be happy and fine (and enjoy himself, I am sure)...

[Johonny]

9. I want him to stick around to face California Chrome in the fall

would be the most exciting thing in horse racing since Cigar

[flamingdem]

10. He can relax with his friend the pig

who is always in his stall, some cute articles about this floating around.

[ohheckyeah]

11. First time

in 37 years no less.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Isn't it great, my dear elleng?

I am so pleased!

He was born to run, and that's what he did!

He even sped up as he got closer to the wire!

[ananda]

13. I know.

That was some damm horse!

[elleng]

15. Beautiful horse, and he was ahead from the beginning, CalPeg.

[dilby]

16. I was so excited about this race, actually did some work earlier in the

Week for NYRA for the race so was so stoked to get to watch the race the last triple crown was won when I was 3. My girlfriend was not exactly excited to watch it but she thought it was cool that it was a piece of history.

[UTUSN]

18. Here's a bit of a tip of the hat to Victor ESPINOZA:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Espinoza

[font size=5]Victor Espinoza[/font]

(born May 23, 1972) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the Triple Crown in 2015 on American Pharoah. He began riding in his native Mexico and went on to compete at racetracks in California. He has won the Kentucky Derby three times, riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharoah in 2015. He also won the Preakness Stakes three times, riding War Emblem in 2002 California Chrome in 2014 and American Pharoah in 2015. He was the first jockey in history to enter the Belmont Stakes with a third opportunity to win the Triple Crown.[1] finally winning the elusive honor in 2015, the oldest jockey to win the award.[2]

Espinoza was born on a dairy farm in Hidalgo, Mexico, the eleventh of twelve children.[3][4] He and his brother José, his senior by three years, enjoyed riding horses on the farm; when he was 15 he traveled to Cancún to assist his brother as a Quarter Horse trainer.[3] He paid for jockey school by driving a bus in Mexico City at age 17.[4][5] Within a few years, Espinoza was racing thoroughbreds at Mexico City's track, Hipódromo de las Américas.[3][6] His first winner there was in 1992.[7]

Espinoza moved to Northern California, where by 1994 he was the leading apprentice rider at the Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields racetracks.[4] A year later, he moved to Los Angeles.[3] His big break came in 2000 when he won the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Spain.[3] He rode his first Kentucky Derby in 2001, placing third on Congaree,[7] and in 2002, he won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes atop War Emblem.[3] Between 2000 and 2006 he averaged 193 wins a year and twice finished third in total earnings among jockeys.[3] However, his career entered a slump until he decided to refocus. As he explained, "One day, I woke up and I said ‘This is not how I’m going to end up my career." He hired a new agent in January 2013, Brian Beach, and with a change in motivation[8] went on to obtain his 3,000th career win, aboard Flashy Delight, on May 31, 2013, at Betfair Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.[9] After winning the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes on California Chrome, in June 2014 Espinoza traveled to Britain to win the Windsor Castle Stakes at the Royal Ascot meeting on the Wesley A. Ward-trained colt Hootenanny.[10]

Espinoza is unmarried and has no children.[24] He donates ten percent of his winnings to the City of Hope to support pediatric cancer research.

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[elleng]

20. VERY well earned.

Thanks for posting.

[taught_me_patience]

21. Probably completely juiced to the gills

roided more than the other horses in the race. When I see performances like this, my skepticism goes off the charts.

[yourpicturehere]

22. Ya can't make a bad horse run well...

I don't care how many drugs you give him.

These horse are born to run, they LOVE to run and the good ones know what winning is. That is why they use other horses in training to teach to trainee to compete. If he wants to win that is half the battle.