American Pharoah wins the Triple Crown!!!!

Triple Crown Winners:

1. 1919 Sir Barton
2. 1930 Gallant Fox
3. 1935 Omaha
4. 1937 War Admiral
5. 1941 Whirlaway
6. 1943 Count Fleet
7. 1946 Assault
8. 1948 Citation
9. 1973 Secretariat
10. 1977 Seattle Slew
11. 1978 Affirmed
12. 2015 American Pharaoh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow!  I can't believe it, it finally happened the triple crown drought has been ended!!!  I've waiting a long time to see one with my own eyes(I was too young in 1977 and 1978) to remember those).  My Grandfather was into horse racing big time.  He worked at Garden State, Atlantic City, and Monmouth Park racetracks.   He attended multiple Kentucky Derbies back in the 1930s and 1940s.  He attended one more with Grandmother in 1978, the year Affirmed won the triple crown.   That Belmont Stakes that year may have been the last race he ever saw.  He died July 8, 1978, two days before my 4th birthday.   There hasn't been another triple crown since then until today.  For years we watched the triple crown races with my father and Grandmother hoping to see another triple crown.   Too bad Grandmother wasn't around to see this.   But Maybe she watched it from heaven.  Man, what a race!  What a horse.   Very horses could lead a race as long as the Belmont Stakes from start to finish and still be pulling away at the end.  Sports History has been made today!

I guess he gets to avoid Taco Bell for a few more years this way.

Great news in my mind.  I am not big into horse racing, but I really enjoyed the movie Secretariat despite its uneven pacing and was amazed at that tremendous horse, so my interest is piqued every time I hear about a Triple Crown contender.  Awesome news.  Glad to hear it :)

SilverWook said:

That's like saying guns made boxing obsolete though. ;)

 Yep, nothing primitive about boxing...

Danfun128 said:

I don't see what the fuss is about. It's Horse racing. Car races made horse races obsolete to almost everybody except gamblers and the racers themselves.

Sorry, I just don't see the appeal.

I hope Warbler says:

I swear that if you granted all the race horses who have ever lived sapience, at least half of them would commit suicide out of shame for the stupid names their owners gave them.

Well, how could it? There never were any American pharaohs, and the ancient Egyptians never went past the double crown:

*sigh* 

Where was that *sigh* when we made the Taco Bell joke?

Team Olie

Padme said:

You're wrong!

What's a "lill'"?