b'racingAdAM MooshiAn/nYrALeft, China Horse Clubs Teo Ah Khing had the honor of leading Justify to the Belmont winners circle. Above, American Pharoah ended the long drought of Triple Crown winners when sweeping the series in 2015.Anne M. eberhArdtWere out here looking at thewas set at $150,000 for the first season asto give Real Quiet a premature cue when next crop, he joined a hard-hitting lineup that alreadyVictory Gallop, trained by Walden, stuck his included American Pharoah. nose in front at the Belmont wire in 1998.Baffert joined Sunny Jim Fitzsim- Waldens keen eye for talent has helped seeing if there ismons as the only trainers to oversee twoturn WinStar, owned by Kenny Troutt Triple Crown winners. Fitzsimmons sad- and based in Versailles, Kentucky, into a another Justifydled Gallant Fox and his son, Omaha. perennial power.When we get a good horse, BaffertWere out here looking at the next said of his finely tuned operation, wecrop, seeing if there is another Justify in in the group.know what we need to do. the group, Walden said during a recent Ahmed Zayat, who owned Americanphone interview. Im not going to be Pharoah, would not be surprised if Baffertaudacious enough to say its going to makes more history. happen again for us. But as long as we areelliott Walden Being able to get your horses toout here trying, we are going to have an maintain their weight and condition andopportunity. in peak form is an absolute art that he hasThe disparate elements that must mesh, mastered, Zayat said. the combined heroics of horse and man, the Baffert had fallen agonizingly shortunpredictability of it all, make the Triple twice before. Surging Touch Gold made aCrown an accomplishment like no other.wide move that blindsided Silver CharmIts a surreal feeling that has never for a by three-quarters of a length in the 1997moment left, Zayat said.Belmont. Jockey Kent Desormeaux appearedIt never will.US-BRED18 03_TripleCrown_use.indd 18 3/21/19 2:35 PM'