“JUSTIFY” KEEPS TRIPLE CROWN HOPES ALIVE
“Justify”, at closing odds of only 4/10, won the Preakness Stakes 2018 on a wet and muddy track in foggy conditions, from fast finishing Bravado and Tenfold. Justify and Good Magic, the second favourite, were taken to the front right from the start and were ahead of the others by a good 5-6 lengths throughout. Same order prevailed while entering the straight and Justify began drawing away from Good Magic and when it appeared that Justify will cruise to an easy win, both Bravado and Tenfold came with telling strides to finish a very close second and third to Justify. With this win Justify has kept his hopes of a Triple Crown alive, having won the Kentucky Derby a few weeks ago. Now all eyes on the third leg, Belmont Stakes, to be run on 9th June 2018 at the Belmont Park race course in Elmont, New York. If Justify wins the race, he will be the 13th winner since Sir Barton won the triple crown 99 years ago. The Triple Crown was last won by American Pharoah in 2015. With Belmont Stakes being run over 2400 metres while Preakness was over 1900 metres, and with Bravado and Tenfold closing in on the winner in the final stages of the race, I don’t expect it will be all that easy for Justify at Belmont Park.