1. Triple Crown winners
The 12 horses that have won the Triple Crown
(along with their jockey):
1919: Sir Barton (Johnny Loftus)
1930: Gallant Fox (Earl Sande)
1935: Omaha (Willie Saunders)
1937: War Admiral (Charley Kurtsinger)
1941: Whirlaway (Eddie Arcaro)
1943: Count Fleet (Johnny Longden)
1946: Assault (Warren Mehrtens)
1948: Citation (Eddie Arcaro)
1973: Secretariat (Ron Turcotte)
1977: Seattle Slew (Jean Cruguet)
1978: Affirmed (Steve Cauthen)
2015: American Pharoah (Victor Espinoza)
Top 3 and Payouts
Win: American Pharoah paid $3.50, $2.80,
$2.50
Place: Frosted paid $3.50 and $2.90
Show: Keen Ice paid $4.60
Associated Press/CHRIS O’MEARA
Tampa Bay defenseman Jason Garrison, back,
celebrates his game-winning goal with Victor Hedman
during the third period of Saturday’s Game 2 of the
Stanley Cup Final.
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
TAMPA — Two goalies taking turns
in the crease in the third period. A
low-scoring defenseman getting the
biggest goal of all.
The Tampa Bay Lightning found
some strange ways to even the Stan-
ley Cup Final.
Jason Garrison scored the tie-
breaking power-play goal with 11:11
to play, rookie goalie Andrei Vasile-
vskiy relieved Ben Bishop twice to
earn the victory and the Lightning
beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 in
Game 2 on Saturday night to even
the series at 1.
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and
an assist for the Lightning, who
played with all the aggression they
lacked in the third period of Game 1
when Chicago rallied late to win.
Tyler Johnson and Cedric
Paquette also scored for Tampa
Bay, which curiously made three
goalie changes in the third. The
20-year-old Vasilevskiy twice re-
placed starter Ben Bishop and made
five saves in 9:13 to earn his first
NHL playoff win.
Game 3 is Monday night in Chi-
cago.
Vasilevskiy has 16 regular-season
games of NHL experience, and he
had played in just two games since
March 31. But the Russian came
in for 92 seconds before Garrison
scored the go-ahead goal, and he re-
turned to finish the game with 7:41
to play, earning the victory.
The Lightning didn’t say why
Bishop left the game, came back
and left again. He complained of
interference on Brent Seabrook’s
tying goal early in the third but
played on.
STANLEY CUP FINAL
Garrison’s goal helps Lightning tie series at 1
Chicago 1, Tampa Bay 1
Games 3-4 on NBCSN;
Games 5-7 on NBC x-if necessary
Wednesday: Chicago 2, Tampa
Bay 1
Saturday: Tampa Bay 4, Chicago
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Monday: at Chicago, 8 p.m.
June 10: at Chicago, 8 p.m.
x-June 13: at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.
x-June 15: at Chicago, 8 p.m.
x-June 17: at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2015
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By ED MCNAMARA
Newsday
NEW YORK — The long wait is done.
Racing finally has its 12th Triple
Crown hero.
American Pharoah led from
the gate and defeated Frosted by
5½ lengths Saturday in the 147th
Belmont Stakes, becoming the first
horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby,
the Preakness and the “Test of the
Champion” since Affirmed in 1978.
He led wire to wire and ran 1.5
miles in 2:26.65 at Belmont Park in
his seventh consecutive victory, all
in stakes, for trainer Bob Baffert
and owner-breeder Ahmed Zayat.
American Pharoah paid $3.50, the
lowest-priced Belmont winner and
its first successful favorite since
Afleet Alex in 2005.
“Wow, wow,” jockey Victor Espi-
noza, 43, said after the race.
It was the record fourth time Baf-
fert tried for the elusive Crown after
being denied with Silver Charm
(1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War
Emblem (2002). Espinoza lost on War
Emblem and on California Chrome
last year.
“I just feel like I have a very spe-
cial horse,” Baffert said.
Keen Ice finished third.
American Pharoah had fueled
hope he was good enough to claim
the most coveted trophy in sports.
His seven-length runaway in the
Preakness guaranteed he would be
odds-on favorite in the Belmont, and
many people bought win tickets on
him they intended to save rather
than cash at the short odds.
“In the first turn,” Espinosa said
about when he knew American
Pharoah would win the race.
The long-striding bay son of Pio-
neerof the Nile has become a cash
colt for Zayat. Besides earning more
than $3.7 million entering the Bel-
mont, the recent sale of his breeding
rights to Ashford Stud in Versailles,
Kentucky, reportedly was worth
at least $22 million and perhaps as
much as $30 million.
Earlier this week, Zayat spoke of
wanting to race American Pharoah
BELMONT STAKES
CROWN JEWELAmerican Pharoah leads wire-to-wire, becomes first horse in 37 years to win Triple Crown
Associated Press/KATHY WILLENS
Victor Espinoza reacts after guiding American Pharoah across the finish line to win the 147th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. American
Pharoah became the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown.
About American Pharoah
A bay colt by Pioneerof the
Nile-Littleprincessemma, by Yan-
kee Gentleman.
Egyptian-born owner Ahmed Zayat
bred the colt and put him up for
sale before buying him back for
$300,000. His name came cour-
tesy of the family’s online contest,
in which a woman from Missouri
submitted the moniker, but the
misspelling of “Pharoah” wasn’t
noticed until the name was official.
— The Associated Press
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