I don't know anything about horse-racing (except what I picked up in my middle school Marguerite Henry phase) but I thought it was kinda sweet how excited the announcer got near the end. Made me wanna throw confetti everywhere. Congratulations! #the congratulations are for everyone #congratulations to american pharaoh #congratulations to the jockey #congratulations to the other horses and jockeys who got to be part of a cool race # congratulations to the owner #congratulations to everyone who's excited
THE ANNOUNCER AT THE END i hope they treated the poor horse nice at the end of the day. deserves it. what a good boy
Well, Secretariat's times are: 1:59 2/5 on the Kentucky Derby, 1:53 on the Preakness Stakes, and 2:24 at the Belmont Stakes. American Pharaoh's got 2:03. 1:58, and 2.26 on those respectively. I don't know what the previous second-place records are but Pharaoh certainly got very close.
@Elaienar The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. In order to win the Triple Crown, a horse has to win at the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes. In the around-a-century that the Triple Crown has existed, there have been twelve winners: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway(1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978) and now American Pharoah. The 37-year wait between winners that was just broken by American Pharoah was the longest time between two winners in the Triple Crown's history. Also, horses have weird names.
Everything registered has weird names lol. My favorite horse name is pot-oooooooo. It was supposed to be potatoe, but the stable guy misheard the owner as he was writing it out, so he thought it was supposed to be Pot, eight o's.
...when I think of the Triple Crown I think of this archery tournament my dad does every year in early spring XD
