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All the horse knows.....
...... Run really fast.... Get oat bag

He didn't break Secretariat's record

Big Red 2:24.00 in 1973

AP 2:26.65

(CNN)Social media erupted in horse emojis on Saturday as soon as American Pharoah crossed the finish line at the Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978.

But it didn't take long for wisecracks and confusion over the infamous misspelling of his name to pop up amid the horse puns and exclamation points.

Without naming names, let's just say at least one major news source got it "wrong" (and by wrong, we mean right), spelling his name "pharaoh" in a tweet, prompting rebukes from social media users.

We've been through this before but let's do it again: The bad spelling came from a mistake in the horse's registration paperwork.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported that a fan submitted the name of the horse during an online contest, and spelled "pharaoh" wrong. The woman later told media outlets she checked the spelling before she submitted the name.

Regardless, the misspelling was put on the electronic form to the site where owners register their horses. Now the name is trademarked, the Louisville paper reported.

That hasn't stopped the name from trending in the past with the wrong spelling, though that did not seem to be the case Saturday night.

But as long as American Pharoah's owner, Ahmed Zayat, sticks with it, it seems the rest of the world with have to follow suit.

Besides, horses can't spell.

I didn't think so , his jockey would have given the world to win. Sorry confuzzled we just don't see eye to eye on this.

I removed a few posts that were trolling and/or off topic.

He didn't hold him back. Frosted had to negotiate a lot of traffic to get up front, that wears a horse out.

Thanks ObLa , I saw a couple of other versions but still don't see Frosted being held back.I'm no expert.

I don't think the horse broke a record actually. It had just been 37 years since a horse had done it.

Oh, for Pete's sake. He grew up on his family's goat farm in Mexico. He said in one interview that as a child he was afraid of goats and horses. Got a job as a truck driver and thought he was big time. Well, he's really big time now. BTW, he refers to himself as "the happy Mexican."

Ok !!!

NO, HE DOESN'T OWN A GOAT FARM.

Piss on you!!! look it up ...he owns a goat farm in Mexico ....and for your info i was not racist

YOU WERE.

NOW SHOW WHERE HE OWNS A GOAT FARM.

Who was racist ?

THANK YOU FOR THAT RACIST STATEMENT, ****.

Dang that's generous alright...shoot i figured he would up grade his goat farm.

This from Bleacher Report

American Pharoah jockey Victor Espinoza always donates a percentage of his winnings to City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment facility in California. After winning the Belmont Stakes and, with it, the Triple Crown yesterday, however, he was feeling especially generous.

... jockey Victor Espinoza won't keep any of his Belmont winnings, saying after Saturday's race they'll go to a California cancer treatment center.

At the wire I was like, 'I cannot believe I did it,'" Espinoza said. "I (won) the Triple Crown race now, but I didn't make any money, because I donated my money to the City of Hope."

This, from a report in the Courier-Journal, shows part of the reason it was so easy to root for Espinoza to be a part of winning the Triple Crown. The horse's owners will also be donating a portion of their winnings to several different parties, including the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

I seen on Fs1 where the jockey had made something like $204 million in his career as a jockey....that's a pretty good career for a jockey. That was before the Belmont Stakes. Wonder what he made yesterday?

Here you go Kenc

http://www.nbcsports.com/ho...news:video

Secretariat was his great, great, great grandfather on his mother's side. I can now say I've seen 4 Triple Crown winners = Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed and American Pharoah.

http://www.pedigreequery.co...an+pharoah