By Jessica Martini
Saturday's racing surely came extremely close to perfection for any lover of the Thoroughbred. The highlight, inevitably, had to be American Pharoah's majestic display at Belmont, which finally quenched America's thirst for a Triple Crown winner. However, there were no grounds for complaint earlier in the day at Epsom, when the exciting Golden Horn maintained his unbeaten record in excellent style in the Derby.
Appropriately, each of the colts is a representative of the male line which has made the greatest impact on his respective country's Triple Crown events in recent decades. In winning the Belmont, American Pharoah supplied the Fappiano branch of the Mr. Prospector line with its 13th win in a Triple Crown event, the sequence starting with Unbridled in the Kentucky Derby of 1990. I haven't seen American Pharoah in the flesh, but he appears to possess the size and power that has made this branch so effective on America's dirt tracks.
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