{"id":14929,"date":"2018-06-09T22:34:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T03:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2018-06-09T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T03:43:06","slug":"14929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=14929","title":{"rendered":"Justify? No more arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14932\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180609.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180609-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180609-768x408.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justify wins the Triple Crown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Saturday, June 9, Belmont Park, NY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left there like he was going 440 at Ruidoso,\u201d said Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, who had just won the 1-1\/2-mile Belmont Stakes aboard Justify to claim the Triple Crown. Justify is one of only 13 horses to have won the Triple Crown since 1919, when Sir Barton took the first.<\/p>\n<p>Justify is also the only other Triple Crown winner besides Seattle Slew to come into the Belmont Stakes undefeated. However, Seattle Slew began his career as a 2-year-old; Justify did not make his debut until February 18, 2018, when he was three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost like getting a Quarter Horse ready to run,\u201d said Justify\u2019s Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, referring to the short time span between the stallion\u2019s first start and the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n<p>Baffert won the Triple Crown in 2015 with American Pharoah and is now tied with James \u201cSunny Jim\u201d Fitzsimmons (Gallant Fox in 1930 and Omaha in 1935) for most winners in the 99-year history of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob made my dream come true,\u201d said Mike Smith, who at 52 became the oldest jockey to win the Triple Crown. Early in their careers, B<a href=\"?p=14922\">affert and Smith both raced at New Mexico\u2019s Ruidoso Downs<\/a>, where the first leg of Quarter racing\u2019s Triple Crown, the $1 million Ruidoso Futurity takes place on Sunday, June 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, June 9, Belmont Park, NY \u201cHe left there like he was going 440 at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14937,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/14937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}