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Jun 9, 2015 17:15:05 GMT -5
Post by cait on Jun 9, 2015 17:15:05 GMT -5
Cover Boy: American Pharoah Front And Center In Sports Illustrated
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American Pharoah can now be included on the list of the sport's greatest horses, like Sir Barton, Assault, War Admiral, Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed, who until Saturday was the most recent Triple Crown winner.
“We've had a lot of good horses,” trainer Bob Baffert said. “I’ve never had one that moves like this. Never.”
“The race was, first, about American Pharaoh winning the first Triple Crown in 37 years, but it was also about a horse making people care about a sport in a way they haven’t in a long time,” SI’s managing editor Chris Stone writes. “Not the trainers or the jockeys or stable workers who live and sweat it every day, but the people in that photo with their arms raised, their smartphones poised, in full throat. On an amazing sports weekend, horse racing was back at its center because of the extraordinary horse first, but also because of all the people who found themselves emotionally invested in that story—at least for a little while.”
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American Pharoah can now be included on the list of the sport's greatest horses, like Sir Barton, Assault, War Admiral, Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed, who until Saturday was the most recent Triple Crown winner.
“We've had a lot of good horses,” trainer Bob Baffert said. “I’ve never had one that moves like this. Never.”
“The race was, first, about American Pharaoh winning the first Triple Crown in 37 years, but it was also about a horse making people care about a sport in a way they haven’t in a long time,” SI’s managing editor Chris Stone writes. “Not the trainers or the jockeys or stable workers who live and sweat it every day, but the people in that photo with their arms raised, their smartphones poised, in full throat. On an amazing sports weekend, horse racing was back at its center because of the extraordinary horse first, but also because of all the people who found themselves emotionally invested in that story—at least for a little while.”