What a day to go to the races
Whether American Pharoah won or lost, last Saturday’s Belmont Stakes was going to be one to remember.
Tom Law
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Weekend at Belmont Park
The dust is long since settled, the crowds gone and the comparisons, critiques and criticisms in high gear. The most memorable edition of the Belmont Stakes in nearly four decades came and went last weekend and with it a Triple Crown winner in American Pharoah.
Well-earned Crown
Darkness was coming, helicopters circling, drunks reveling, sirens blaring and photographers scrambling. American Pharoah, newly christened Triple Crown winner and the star of the American sports world, finally emerged from the test barn and started his short walk toward Barn 1 in the Belmont Park stable area.
American Dream
Plain and simple, cut to the chase, get to the point. Whatever you want to say, the wait is over.
The words from nearly everyone’s mouths the same. It happened.
American Pharoah ended nearly four decades of futility Saturday at Belmont Park, winning the Belmont Stakes in front of a raucous and celebratory crowd to become the 12th Triple Crown winner.
Rain gives way as sellout crowd set for 147th Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes Day got off to a wet start Saturday as a steady light rain fell throughout the New York Metropolitan area in the early morning hours before giving way to cloudy skies and brief snippets of sunshine.
Only the lightest of rain, more like a mist, remained as cars started to file into Belmont Park through Gate 8 off Plainfield Avenue just before 7:30 a.m. ET.
The buzz builds at Belmont
A shade less than 48 hours since American Pharoah arrived in New York to make his run at racing history and the buzz is really starting to develop at Belmont Park.
The question of whether he can pull off the Triple Crown sweep isn’t exactly everywhere – this is the Big Apple after all – but plenty of folks are still very interested in the quest that’s been downright impossible for more than three decades.
Field set for 147th Belmont Stakes
American Pharoah did it from the outside in the Kentucky Derby. He did it from the inside in the Preakness Stakes. When he goes for the sweep of the Triple Crown in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes he’ll try it from the middle of the field.
Final work complete
Bob Baffert says he isn’t nervous about Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, when he’ll send out American Pharoah with a chance at joining elite company. He was nervous for Monday morning, however, when the colt who can become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 turned in his final serious workout before shipping to New York.
Final countdown begins for Belmont Stakes
A trio of would-be upsetters to American Pharoah’s Triple Crown aspirations turned in workouts Saturday and the connections of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner would log his final serious breeze for the Belmont Stakes Monday morning at Churchill Downs.
