Coolmore America Handbook 2020

Why Triple Crown champs Justify and American Pharoah remain stars By Katherine Terrell, , 3 rd May 2019

… at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky, two Triple Crown-winning colts are trying to make their own history… American Pharoah, a Triple Crown winner in 2015, has lived there for four years, and his first foals have already hit the track. In that time, Justify

has come and gone from the track, where he won six races and swept the 2018 Triple Crown before retiring... … After Affirmed won the Triple Crown in 1978, there was a 37-year drought before American Pharoah came along to sweep the series himself. It had been so long that

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