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EXERT & EXHALE “EVEN IF JUSTIFY DOESN’T WIN THE TRIPLE CROWN, THIS WILL GO DOWN AS BAFFERT’S GREATEST TRAINING FEAT OF ALL TIME AND QUITE POSSIBLY THE GREATEST TRAINING FEAT EVER.” I ride for ... everyone who’s still ÅOP\QVOKIVKMZº –Ed Nelson, rider Bike to Beat Cancer, 2012-2018 opportunity to take the Triple Crown. He didn’t win another Triple Crown race until the 2010 Preakness with Lookin At Lucky. In 2015, Baffert finally captured that elusive Triple Crown with American Pharoah. It was the first time in 37 years since that feat had been accomplished and twelfth time overall in the sport’s more than 140-year history. This year, Baffert won the Kentucky Derby for the fifth time when Justify took home the roses. The victory moved Baffert into second place all time, one behind Ben Jones who trained in the 1940s. Baffert and Justify also won the 2018 Preakness Stakes, giving Baffert his seventh Preakness victory, which moved him into a tie with Robert Wyndham Walden, who trained from 1875 to 1888. That Preakness victory also moved him into a tie with D. Wayne Lucas for the most Triple Crown race victories of all time (14). The attempt to win the Belmont Stakes on June 9 would give Baffert his second Triple Crown winner in three years. Ed started riding in Bike to Beat Cancer to support his sister. Now he’s riding for everyone battling cancer. Join him by registering for one of seven ride options, including a new 15-mile ride or a spin session. S E P T. 8 , 2 0 1 8 Norton Cancer Institute – Brownsboro 4955 Norton Healthcare Blvd. Find your reason to ride at BikeToBeatCancer.org. Powered by JUNE/JULY 2018 : EXTOL 43