Justify has become the thirteenth horse to finish us flat racing's triple crown with victory inside the belmont stakes.
The bob baffert-educated horse observed his kentucky derby and preakness stakes wins in new york on saturday.
The 3-year-vintage colt, ridden by using mike smith, is now unbeaten in six races seeing that his debut in february.
He led from the start and was chased home with the aid of gronkowski, formerly trained in britain by means of jeremy noseda, with hofburg in 1/3.
Evaluation
Bbc horse racing correspondent cornelius lysaght
This turned into top notch by means of justify to document a quite facile, all-the-manner win, and land america triple crown much less than four months after making his debut at santa anita, and having a complete of six races in that time.
He looks a huge, effective sort of horse - he need to genuinely be that to have coped with this kind of examination. It turned into hanging how, no matter all of the hullabaloo of belmont stakes day, he hardly turned a hair.
Fulfillment inside the triple crown in us racing is simply massive and will make the pony and people around him national stars.
There have now been five winners in the us considering that racing's authentic triple crown, in the uk, changed into final won by means of nijinsky (1970). How appropriate wouldn't it be to get every other right here quickly?
