It’s on Tellytrack on Saturday evening!……….”He’s America’s horse because we’ve got the entire country, if not the entire world, behind us!” It is 36 years since Affirmed won the Triple Crown and California Chrome’s upcoming bid on Saturday.Can he pull it off?
The 146th running of the Belmont Stakes will take place at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York this Saturday.
The Triple Crown of US racing is one of the most difficult feats for a horse to accomplish and only 11 have succeeded, since Sir Barton, writes Jimmy Lithgow
The shock late withdrawal of Triple Crown pretender I’ll Have Another, took some of the sparkle out of the 2012 Belmont Stakes run at Belmont Park in New York last Saturday. But it turned into a thriller!
Plenty of horses racing in different countries at similar periods share names, but it is hard to think of another recent incident when two identically named horses won feature races on one weekend!
