Finally, a cheerful ending to a fraught Triple Crown.
Arcangelo thundered down the stretch of the Belmont Stakes to win the a hundred and fifty fifth operating of the Belmont Stakes by a size and a half and made somewhat historical past: His coach, Jena Antonucci, turned the first feminine coach to win a Triple Crown race, a sequence that spans greater than a century.
The colt held off a late run by Forte and gave his jockey, Javier Castellano, his first Belmont victory. Castellano, a Hall of Famer, gained his first Kentucky Derby 5 weeks in the past aboard Mage. Arcangelo is a 3-year-old ridgeling who price proprietor Jon Ebbert of Blue Rose Farm $35,000 as a yearling.
It was welcome information to a battered previous sport that’s beneath intense scrutiny after 12 horses died at Churchill Downs — two on the undercard of the Derby — and made the public query whether or not horse racing’s social license needs to be renewed.
The sport, too, was rocked by the information that Forte, the Derby favourite till he was declared unsound by Kentucky veterinarians and scratched on the morning of the race, had flunked a drug check final September after successful the Hopeful Stakes.
It was one in all six failed assessments by horses skilled by Hall of Fame coach Todd Pletcher in the final 11 months.
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