When Justify, the hulking chestnut colt with the big white blaze and the sweeping stride, tries to become the 13th Triple Crown winner on Saturday at Belmont Park, there will be no one rooting harder for him to race into the record books than the people on his team.
It is an arduous task just to get horses to any of the Triple Crown races, let alone to have one in a position for a historic sweep.
American Pharoah’s storybook run in 2015, when he became the 12th Triple Crown winner and the first since 1978, made it look easy.