Triple Crown Winner!!

I've been holding out hope for a very long time, that eventually a horse would win the Triple Crown in my lifetime.  Seeing as the last one was in 1978, it was well before my time.  I thought it just might happen last year but then California Chrome was injured and unable to run in Belmont.  

I had an inkling that American Pharaoh might have a chance after the Derby, mostly because the press were eating the story up.  Then the win at the Preakness came by such a huge margin, it was all but inevitable.  As excited as I was during the lead up for Belmont, for some reason I completely forgot about the race today, until I caught it in the bar at the restaurant I was eating in this evening.

Thank goodness for small miracles!  After all this desire for a Triple Crown, I finally got to see it happen in real time.  And it was pretty darn Awesome!

Congrats to American Pharaoh and Congrats to Victor Espinoza!  You're truly 2 for the record books!

I'll Have Another!

So I'm definitely not so into horse racing.  Quite honestly I really don't like horses all that much.  Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful animals.  But they're also too big and too unpredictable for my liking. 

That, however, has not stopped me from getting super excited for the possibility of  a Triple Crown Winner.  "I'll Have Another" won the second jewel in the crown today by taking MD's Preakness.  Somehow, coincidentally enough, I even celebrated the day with some horses.  Well, not so much with horses, as much as in the prescence of horses.  (The little ones rode and I lounged far away from them...)

Source: Baltimore Sun

Keep on running I'll Have Another, Belmont's only 3 weeks away!