ELMONT, N.Y. — Twenty-two years ago, when Bob Baffert was a naïve newcomer to this Triple Crown thing, his horse Cavonnier lost the Kentucky Derby in a photo finish. An hour after finishing second in ...

Triple Crown champion Justify, who burst onto the horse racing scene in February, has left just as quickly. The 3-year-old colt was retired Wednesday after just 112 racing days and six races to become ...

The stakes were highest for one chestnut colt at the Belmont Stakes this year. But Justify beat the odds and joined an elite — and extraordinarily small — class of horses to win the Triple Crown at ...

Justify came into the Belmont Stakes with history on the line Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer and reporter ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- There was a reason crowds of people followed Justify wherever he went in the week leading up to the 2018 Kentucky Derby. Spectators craned their necks to get a look whenever the ...

After a day of steady rain on Churchill Downs, it was Justify who managed to cross the finish line first in the mud. Justify brought Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith a second Derby victory. Smith ...

As Justify raced out to an early lead at Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, and held it for the whole mile-and-a-half, the chestnut colt’s trainer, Bob Baffert, stood stoically in the stands next to his wife ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Justify not only won the rainiest Kentucky Derby on record, but the colt lifted a 136-year-old curse while doing so. Justify ran the 1¼ miles in 2:04.20, going the first half-mile ...

He never gave up the lead. Justify charged out of the gate and never gave up the lead, powering his way to victory at the Belmont Stakes to become just the 13th horse to win the Triple Crown. The colt ...