Justify wins Belmont Stakes to become 13th Triple Crown winner and second in four years. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Those were the words that trainer Bob Baffert used several weeks ago about his Triple Crown winner Justify, who arrived in his barn in the fall without having run a race as a 2-year-old, fresh off a pulled muscle and minor knee surgery a year earlier.
Then jockey Mike Smith picked him up midway through the sweeping Belmont turn and nobody could catch him.
Hofburg, who hasn’t raced since the Kentucky Derby, tried to make a move on the outside but was better than 3 lengths back.