Follows up Triple Crown win with easy victory‘He ran like a champ,’ says jockey Victor Espinoza
Trainer Bob Baffert might well be expecting a call from the Bureau of Competition after the 48th running of the $1.75m Grade I Haskell Invitational Stakes at Monmouth Park in which Triple Crown hero American Pharoah treated his opposition to a wholly one-sided display of gargantuan race dominance.
The first Triple Crown winner in 37 years – who went off a prohibitive 1-9 odds-on favorite in the Haskell – sauntered domestic two-and-a-quarter lengths clear of 18-1 shot Keen Ice, with second favorite Upstart in third and Competitive Edge in fourth. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com