Strong Horses...

Justified wins the Triple Crown...Who will win the G7 Summit?  

TOM/Smitty: "I said: 'Cut Back on the Tariffs...'"

AoSHQ: Yuge

EBL: Shine Box

DRUDGE: Singapore?

Lem's Place: G7 Summary

Bloomberg: This is a big week

John McCain be-clowns himself

Instapundit: Trump Nails Trade Hypocrisy

Don Surber: G7 is Donald Trump and the Six Dwarfs

Powerline: Trump Nails Trade Hypocrisy and World Order?

Hot Air: Promises and offers of free trade and threats of tariffs

Justified Wins Preakness

LA Times: Justified Wins Preakness Stakes

Pimlico was wet and foggy (like Churchill Downs was). We'll see if Justified can do it at Belmont.  

EBL: Derby Day Mint Julep

The Zayat Family hits it big with American Pharaoh

Justin and Ahmed Zayat

Ahmed Zayat's journey from big bets, bankruptcy and now the Triple Crown.  Ahmed Zayat is an Orthodox Egyptian Jew who's dad was the personal physican to Anwar Sadat. His love of horses started in Cairo. Zayat has enemies and critics, but there is no denying the success of today. Congratulations to the Zayat family.  

EBL: American Pharaoh wins the Triple Crown

Smitty: Her Majesty's Front Side
American Power Blog

Belmont Stakes: Can American Pharaoh Do It? Update: Yes he can

Belmont Stakes

American Pharaoh wins by 5 and a half lengths

Smitty: Her Majesty's Front Side
American Power Blog

The Belmont Stakes: Can California Chrome get the Triple Crown Update: California Chrome misses out on the crown…

The Belmont Stakes (that is the 2004 race start)

Can California Chrome do it?

Run at History

American Power: Blue Color California Chrome has Central Valley Abuzz

Update:
California Chrome misses out on the Triple Crown

California Chrome wins Preakness

Next stop Belmont…

Coburn and partner Perry Martin bred an $8,000 mare to a $2,500 stallion to produce California Chrome. Based on the colt's humble breeding, he probably shouldn't be on the verge of making history.

Donald Douglas has more linkage stuff 

Update:
Will he even run in the Belmont?  It is not yet clear if he will…
California Chrome can wear a nasal strip at Belmont!

I'll Have Another retires at the ripe old age of three and will not race in the Belmont Stakes: Now his job is living out his life at the farm and fathering colts and fillies

What could have been, still...

not exactly the worst outcome...

Obama inspired horse names...