HRN: Through the lens: Scenes from Justify's Triple Crown triumph

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Through the lens: Scenes from Justify's Triple Crown triumph

"There is a certain air of electricity at Belmont Park when a Triple Crown is on the line. Suspense builds throughout the day like the plot of an action movie as the Belmont Stakes approaches. Throngs of fans fill the vast grandstand apron, many of them donning some sort of support for the horse making a bid for racing’s most illustrious prize.

It was only three years ago when American Pharoah rocked not only the racing world, but the sports world, when he ended the longest drought in Triple Crown history by becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the series. But recency could not diminish the allure of the potential of a history-making moment.

This year, all eyes were on yet another charge from the hair of the white-haired wizard Bob Baffert in a robust, eye-catching chestnut colt named Justify. Although the colt owned by a conglomerate of owners (WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners LLC, and Starlight Racing) had no enduring drought to end, he still had a magnitude of history to make. . ."

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