I’ll have a magical run in the first two steps in 2012 Triple Crown – snatch victory in the Kentucky Derby in 2012, followed by stirring back to the 2012 Preakness on Saturday – puts him in elite company with only 2012 to go to the Belmont stakes. If he is to become the first thoroughbred confirmed in 1978 to claim the prize of horse racing’s most famous, it will be as follows, where many horses have failed.Since 1978, 11 horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown – Spectacular Bid in 1979, Pleasant Colony in 1981, Alydar colt in 1987, Alysheba, Sunday Silence in 1989, Silver Charm in 1997, Real Quiet in 1998, in 1999, Charismatic, War Emblem in 2002, Funny Cide in 2003, Smarty Jones in 2004, and Big Brown in 2008 – just do not respond to a victory in the Belmont Stakes in different directions.
Spectacular Bid took the only show of its 30-race career in the 1979 rate of Belmont, allegedly due to injury. Rates twice, the second in 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, romped in the 1987 Belmont as Alysheba finished fourth. Silver Charm was a cold, almost poetic touch of gold in the 1997 Belmont, Victory Gallop closed dash hopes for a quiet real thread in the 1998 edition. War Emblem finished nearly 20 lengths back in the 2002 Belmont, only to face the futility in 2008, as previously unbeaten Big Brown became the first Triple Crown, is looking for a horse in history to complete first, the first of three races with the competitive performance of Belmont.
I’ll have another 12 horses at the Derby and the Preakness since 1978, seek to avoid their fate. The story can still smile I’ll take in a fight with Bodemeister, second in both races of the Triple Crown this year, remembers confirmed in the famous encounter with Alydar. Alydar Bodemeister first horse in second place on his horse, took both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness stakes.
Racehorse expert SB Nation, Matt Gardner, I will answer back in the Preakness triumph.
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