2015 Belmont Stakes: American Pharoah Triple Crown Video Replay, Purse Earnings

No horse has won the Triple Crown since American Pharoah in 2015.

We better get used to saying that, as the impressive Bob Baffert-trained colt flourished in Saturday's Belmont Stakes to become the first horse to win the coveted achievement in 37 years. Pharoah was brilliant from start to finish, becoming just the second horse to go wire-to-wire in the Belmont in 30 years while notching a finishing time of 2:26.65—the race's fastest result since 1992.

This was jockey Victor Espinoza's third attempt at the Triple Crown, and he shared his excitement during a post-race interview on the NBC broadcast, via ESPN.com.

"I come here with a lot of confidence—more confidence than anywhere. This time, I had so much confidence in American Pharoah," he said. "That trophy caused me a lot of stress. But the third time is the charm."

As the 12th horse to win the coveted Triple Crown—and first since Affirmed in 1978—Pharoah's misspelled name is now in the history books alongside Secretariat and others. Just in case you happened to miss the excitement at Belmont or simply want to relive the drama, here's another look at the race in its entirety:

Pharoah's win was by an official margin of 5 ½ lengths over Frosted—the race's second favorite. Keen Ice—a long shot with a distance pedigree—came in third, and Mubtaahij rounded out the superfecta. Here's a look at the final results and purse earnings for each contender:

Place	No.	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Earnings*
1	5	American Pharoah	Victor Espinoza	Bob Baffert	$800,000
2	6	Frosted	Joel Rosario	Kiaran McLaughlin	$280,000
3	7	Keen Ice	Kent Desormeaux	Dale Romans	$150,000
4	1	Mubtaahij	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	Mike de Kock	$100,000
5	4	Frammento	Mike Smith	Nick Zito	$60,000
6	3	Madefromlucky	Javier Castellano	Todd Pletcher	$45,000
7	2	Tale of Verve	Gary Stevens	Dallas Stewart	$35,000
8	8	Materiality	John Velazquez	Todd Pletcher	$30,000

So, how did we come to those results?

Pharoah didn't have the cleanest break out of the gate, falling just behind his competition directly after the starting bell. However, the colt quickly flashed his great acceleration, bursting through the middle of the pack on his way to the lead position.

He moved so quickly that he settled into the lead well before the first turn.

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Espinoza allowed Pharoah to maintain a somewhat brisk pace early in the race despite the lengthy 1 ½-mile distance at Belmont Park. The colt increased his lead to just about one length, running the first quarter mile in 24.06. Showing no signs of slowing, Pharoah continued his torrid pace down the backstretch, running three quarters of a mile in 1:13.41.

Pharoah continued to breeze around the far turn, and the colt's impressive stamina came into play at the top of the stretch. He began to increase his lead over the field; Materiality, Mubtaahij, Keen Ice and Frosted did their best to keep up, but their efforts were futile.

While Frosted did come from his inside position to challenge the leader briefly, Pharoah easily kicked away from the pack, leaving the tiring Frosted in his wake and taking the Belmont Stakes by a dominating 5 ½ lengths.

As the crowd at Belmont Park erupted with delight, owner Ahmed Zayat shared his feelings on the race's result during an interview on the NBC broadcast, via ESPN.com: "We need stars. I'm so thrilled, honored, privileged and humbled."

Zayat began this year's Triple Crown races looking for his first Kentucky Derby victory. Not only did he get that, but he will now go down in horse racing history as the owner of the 12th horse to achieve the sport's highest honor. The Triple Crown win was also the first for Baffert (three previous attempts) and Espinoza (two previous attempts).

Baffert shared his thoughts following the race on the NBC broadcast, via Elisha Fieldstadt of NBCNews.com: "I didn't know how I was going to feel; now I know. I feel like I have a very special horse and he's the one that won; it wasn't me it was the horse."

Pharoah certainly proved to be a special horse, and he's well deserving of his place in the history books.