Been a HUGE horse racing fan for nearly twenty years, so of course I was watching. I knew he had a good shot going into the race because he beat such a good field in the Derby and just romped home in the Preakness, so I felt better about him than I did about, say, Chrome last year. But there's been so many near-misses since I started watching in 1997 - Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Charismatic, War Emblem, Smarty, etc. etc. so I was pretty nervous.

At first I was wary about him going right to the lead but going into the turn he was running so beautifully that I started to think it was going to happen. Then no one could catch him and he just kept going. Easy, wire-to-wire victory. I was shaking.

It's really tough to explain to non-racing fans what just happened. Not only did he end a 37 year long drought but he proved that it's still possible to win the Triple Crown, which many naysayers have been saying was no longer possible due to modern breeding standards and racing habits. American Pharoah won three MAJOR races in just one month; the last race is without a doubt the longest race he will ever run and he led it the entire time. All of this is just unheard of in modern racing.

Absolutely unreal.