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Kudos American Pharoah....Triple Crown Winner!!! It's been 37 years!! History made!

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American Pharoah was ridden by Victor Espinoza, owned by Zayat Stables and trained by the Hall of Famer Bob Baffert.
Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Awesome race.....he led all the way!!!!!! image

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  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 6,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing!!!! 37 years!
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Last time it happened I was still working for Coin World!
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  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    What a fantastic horse! If you are in the racing/breeding/training game, you find a horse like that once in ten lifetimes if you are lucky.
    That race took me back to 1973 when I watched with my dad and saw Secretariat, Big Red, demolish the Belmont field by 31 lengths.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was an awesome race..... I have seen the last four Triple Crown winners (in each of their races).... this is the only horse racing I follow. I saw Secretariat in his awesome 31 length win.... and American Pharoah came close to his time. Won by 5 and a half lengths.... Cheers, RickO
  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A fantastic showing from a class horse! It transported me back to watching Secretariat pulling away down the
    back stretch at Belmont in 1973 and being moved to tears. image

    Today was almost as emotional.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outstanding!

    I dimly remember when Affirmed did it in 1978, didn't register as all that big a deal until it failed to happen again year after year... until today!

    Good times

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As if horse racing can be trusted in any way.......LOL. >>


    If it were fixed, don't you think it would have been in the best interest of the sport to have "arranged"
    a triple crown winner a lot sooner than after a 37 year gap??
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  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    Will there be Coins? Medals?

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if the jockey will be put out to stud also????

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,844 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Outstanding!

    I dimly remember when Affirmed did it in 1978, didn't register as all that big a deal until it failed to happen again year after year... until today!

    Good times >>


    Exactly.
    Secretariat 1973, Seattle Slough 1977, Affirmed 1978 - I thought it was no big deal.
    I guess horse racing has gotten a lot more competitive in the meantime.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the only horse that might be able to read your kudos is Ed.
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    I gots me smoe coin money

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,551 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I wonder if the jockey will be put out to stud also????

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    Captain, just checked on Victor Espinoza....."Espinoza is unmarried and has no children"

    He also has over 3200 wins........that's quite an accomplishment.

    Looks like he is stud material. image
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was an awesome race to watch, and to see him not only hold on but pull away down that final stretch where so many other former Derby/Preakness winning horses had faded under the strain of the the pressure, the three races in 5 weeks, the fresher horses lying in wait, and those two additional furlongs, was truly breathtaking to see!

    Second fastest Belmont time for a Triple Crown winner after Secretariat.


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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool. First of my lifetime

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Was an awesome race to watch, and to see him not only hold on but pull away down that final stretch where so many other former Derby/Preakness winning horses had faded under the strain of the the pressure, the three races in 5 weeks, the fresher horses lying in wait, and those two additional furlongs, was truly breathtaking to see!

    Second fastest Belmont time for a Triple Crown winner after Secretariat. >>



    This is what will have people wondering for all time. What would the final time have been if American Pharoah and Secretariat were in the same race so they would push each other to their limits!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    OT and boring (to me), but hey, at least we aren't talking about the NFL.

    I shook my head the first few times I heard the stuff about the deflated football controversy. "This is news?" I asked myself.

    Then the coverage went on... and on... and ON, until it made me irrationally furious.

    Not about the controversy, but about how such trivial garbage was drowning out the real news.

    But hey, good for the fast horsey. And a first in 37 year event? OK, yeah, I guess that's impressive, if such things interest you.

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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I could care less about a horse race, especially yesterday. I went to a local VFW and had lunch with 2 D-day survivors and listened to them speak, the hall was packed.
    It was a good day just me and my father. Not many of these guys left, it was an honor to be in their presence.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I could care less about a horse race, especially yesterday. I went to a local VFW and had lunch with 2 D-day survivors and listened to them speak, the hall was packed.
    It was a good day just me and my father. Not many of these guys left, it was an honor to be in their presence. >>

    That's more like it. image

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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<That's more like it. >>

    It was a humbling experience Rob. I can't begin to contemplate, what it was like to bail out of the landing craft and head for the beach.
    As we all know, many never even made it into the water. God bless those serving, those who served and those who gave all.
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  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭
    Pick one and then remember it has to be earned ie paid for big time. Horse racing is rigged if you think it isn't you are hopeless. >>




    No way. I think you are confusing horse racing with presidential primary elections.
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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As if horse racing can be trusted in any way.......LOL....Horse racing is rigged if you think it isn't you are hopeless.

    Horse racing is not rigged.You've got horse racing mixed up with professional wrestling.Citation's Triple Crown win in 1948 is proof that horse racing is not rigged.There's something about horse racing that makes me proud to be an American.


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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Was an awesome race to watch, and to see him not only hold on but pull away down that final stretch where so many other former Derby/Preakness winning horses had faded under the strain of the the pressure, the three races in 5 weeks, the fresher horses lying in wait, and those two additional furlongs, was truly breathtaking to see!

    Second fastest Belmont time for a Triple Crown winner after Secretariat. >>



    This is what will have people wondering for all time. What would the final time have been if American Pharoah and Secretariat were in the same race so they would push each other to their limits! >>



    Indeed.
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    I think Realone is the "ONE" that is hopeless!
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    << <i>I gots me some coin money >>


    Me too. Threw caution to the wind and bet Pharoah in the Derby to show.

    Doubled my money. Quit while I was ahead. Am happy.

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I could put some money on a horse with a name like that. image
    Tempus fugit.
  • IcollecteverythingIcollecteverything Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭
    We can sort of make this on topic now because people are flipping their winning tickets on the bay. An instant collectible. A $2.00 bet won $3.50 or you can put it up for sale for $20 or more.

    95% of $2. tickets were not turned in after 2 days or about 90,000 being hoarded.

    A set of winning tickets from each race in the Triple Crown is running around $300. Must be the earlier ones are rarer.

    Successful BST deals with mustangt and jesbroken. Now EVERYTHING is for sale.

  • DaggoBDaggoB Posts: 333 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Was an awesome race to watch, and to see him not only hold on but pull away down that final stretch where so many other former Derby/Preakness winning horses had faded under the strain of the the pressure, the three races in 5 weeks, the fresher horses lying in wait, and those two additional furlongs, was truly breathtaking to see!

    Second fastest Belmont time for a Triple Crown winner after Secretariat. >>



    This is what will have people wondering for all time. What would the final time have been if American Pharoah and Secretariat were in the same race so they would push each other to their limits! >>



    Indeed. >>


    2.65 seconds behind Secretariats time and the sixth fastest of all time.
  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>2.65 seconds behind Secretariats time and the sixth fastest of all time. >>





    Yup, Easy Goer in 1989 was second fastest at 2:26:00....but still a full 2 seconds slower than Secretariat at 2:24:00.
    No horse has ever even finished in the 2:25s!

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