Justify (horse)

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Justify (born on March 28, 2015) is a US Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who is known for being the thirteenth winner of the American Triple Crown. He also was the first horse since Apollo in 1882 to win the Kentucky Derby without racing as a two-year-old. Justify first attracted attention with a win in his debut race on February 18, 2018. He went on to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes to become the 13th Triple Crown winner. He was retired, undefeated, several weeks after the Belmont and became the only American Triple Crown winner in history who was never beaten in his entire career on the track. (In 2024 he was technically, retroactively, disqualified from his 2018 Santa Anita Derby run.) Justify's ancestors include Secretariat via A.P. Indy, Count Fleet via Mr. Prospector 2nd dam, War Admiral via A.P. Indy Dam Weekend Surprise, Omaha via Nijinsky, and Gallant Fox, all of whom also won the American Triple Crown. On September 11, 2019, it was revealed...

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