{"id":24210,"date":"2015-06-07T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=24210"},"modified":"2015-06-07T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:52:07","slug":"with-belmont-victory-colt-owned-by-orthodox-jew-claims-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/with-belmont-victory-colt-owned-by-orthodox-jew-claims-triple-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"With Belmont victory, colt owned by Orthodox Jew claims Triple Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 A 3-year-old colt owned by an Orthodox Jew from Egypt claimed the first Triple Crown in 37 years. American Pharoah raced to victory on Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, the first horse to win the Belmont, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness since Affirmed in 1978.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24212\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24212\" class=\"wp-image-24212 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"AmericanPharoah\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah.jpg 348w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/269;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24212\" class=\"wp-image-24212 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"AmericanPharoah\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPharoah.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-24212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belmont Stakes and 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Owner Ahmed Zayat, 52, a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey who was born and grew up in Cairo, said after the race \u201cWe all wanted it. We wanted it for the sport,\u201d according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Zayat had watched horses he owned finish second in the Kentucky Derby three out of the last four years. In 2012, horses owned by Zayat finished second in each of the three Triple Crown races. Zayat, who breeds and sells horses, currently owns 144 horses.<\/p>\n<p>Zayat and his family slept in RVs on Friday night and walked to the track on Saturday, in order to observe Shabbat, according to AP.<\/p>\n<p>Jockey Victor Espinoza, who is not Jewish, visited the Lubavitcher rebbe\u2019s grave on Thursday in Cambria Heights, New York, in the borough of Queens, where he prayed and presumably asked for good luck.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"With%20Belmont%20victory%2C%20colt%20owned%20by%20Orthodox%20Jew%20claims%20Triple%20Crown\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1491],"tags":[7096,7097,7098,8790,8795,8788,7099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24214,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24210\/revisions\/24214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}