We'll have to get used to waiting to see another triple-crown winner as Exaggerator overcame favorite Nyquist to capture the Preakness Stakes in sloppy conditions.
"I had a dream trip today," jockey Kent Desormeaux said. "It was an amazing race, and Exaggerator is an amazing horse...
Yesterday we learned that Triple Crown winner American Pharoah earned the No. 2 position for the Travers' Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Track.
Out of the No. 2 position, Pharoah is the clear favorite to win the race, coming in at 1-5 on the odds line...
American Pharoah jockey Victor Espinoza did something that no one else had done since 1978 on Saturday. Then on Sunday, he got to throw out the first pitch at the Yankees game.
American Pharoah won horse racing’s first Triple Crown in 37 years when he broke away from the field and won the Belmont Stakes in New York on Saturday.
Everyone wanted California Chrome to win on Saturday.
Hardly anyone in the world – save for those who had a personal or financial stake in the colt’s opposition – was rooting against the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner in the final jewel of the Triple Crown.
We all wanted to see history made. We all wanted the 36-year drought broken.
But maybe we shouldn’t have wanted that. Maybe, when Calif
It was moments after his horse, California Chrome, lost the Belmont and all Triple Crown hopes. But does co-owner Steve Coburn wish he would've taken a walk first before reacting this way?
This wasn't supposed to happen.
On a gorgeous Long Island day - with over 100,000 bearing witness, with the last three jockeys to win the Triple Crown there to give their blessing - this wasn't supposed to happen.
California Chrome wasn't supposed to lose. This rags-to-riches story wasn't supposed to end in disappointment. It didn't deserve that.
But then again, none of this was ever supposed to