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February, 2020 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com book nook Justify, by Lenny Shulman Review by Nancy Brannon mental aspect, and everyone who touched Justify commented on what a smart horse talking with Lenny shulman about his he is.” talk at the Kentucky Horse Park’s shulman noted “the two factors that will Lunchtime Lecture series motivated me to define Justify: his brilliance and what he read his latest book, Justify: 111 Days to was able to accomplish in a short amount Triple Crown Glory . it is a biography of of time. …this was a great, great race - this outstanding thoroughbred, from his horse. And he is forever in a very exclusive breeding, his purchase at the yearling sale, club that numbers only 13.” his training and development, through all shulman’s book couches Justify’s rac - his triple crown races, and all the people ing career within the larger context of the who influenced the horse’s life. As a writer thoroughbred racing “industry.” shulman for Bloodhorse for 20 years, shulman had sets the scene at belmont, where “a 1,260- Shulman at a book signing at the access to many of the people involved with pound thoroughbred named Justify whose Kentucky Horse Park the horse, especially Justify’s breeder John copper coat is defined by inlets of rippling theme throughout the book by multiple gunther, his trainer bob baffert, and muscles off his shoulders and hindquar - jockey mike smith. spokespersons: how intelligent Justify is; ters” has just been saddled and readied for how takes everything in stride (pun in - Justify is one of a few horses who was the belmont stakes. we all know how the successful in his limited racing career, yet tended) and is never bothered by anything. race turns out, but you’ll have to wait until modity of thoroughbred horses. You learn had never raced as a 2-year-old. coming with all the training, races, and changes of chapter 16 to re-live those exciting mo - how some invest in the horses’ racing ca - into the triple crown races, he had little venue, he never goes off his feed. And “he ments of the 2018 belmont stakes. reers, while others invest in their breeding experience, but handled the situations as if walks into a place like he owns it.” first, we have to learn about his breed - careers – even with the same horse. He de - he were an old pro at this racing game. Jus - there’s quite a bit of history of bob ers John and tanya gunther. John came tails the history of these three businesses tify raced only 111 days, but won every baffert in the book, too, along with the from canada to central Kentucky in 1986 who bought Justify as a yearling. “As Jus - race he entered, particularly his major horses he’s trained and won with. baffert’s to buy into a bluegrass farm named glen - tify left the Keeneland sale grounds for the achievement – the triple crown. mentor and idol – and later competitor – is nwood. it was he who saw something spe - short van ride to winstar farm, he could - interviewed by America’s best racing, D. wayne Lukas. baffert works primarily cial in the chestnut mare magical illusion, n’t have possibly known the international shulman, spoke about a highlight of his out of santa Anita, california, as well as and his wife tanya had her eye on scat scope and various tentacles of his owner - encounters with the horse and trainer bob Los Alamitos. when Justify is shipped to Daddy. the foal born to this pair would be - ship group.” baffert: Los Al, he gets his first experiences work - come the triple crown super star. “even shulman takes us though Justify’s early “the magic moment occurred in march ing out on the track. And, of course, he is as a foal, he was awesome-looking and days, under the management of richard 2018 when i was interviewing baffert at extremely impressive! very intelligent,” said John gunther. budge, with the husband-wife team of his barn at santa Anita, and he asked me if You learn from shulman not only how the next chapter covers the gunthers’ toby and Heather richard who break the i wanted to come see the Derby winner. important strategy is during a race for get - heart-wrenching decision to sell Justify at youngsters at winstar, which had gained a this was outlandish, because Justify had ting the win, but also how trainers’ strat - the Keeneland yearling sale. they put a top reputation as one of the premier training run only once at that point. but baffert egy in selecting particular races and reserve price on the colt at $499,000, hop - facilities in the u.s. for thoroughbreds. brought me over to his stall, and Justify making sure that these races “make,” i.e., ing that they would retain ownership of Justify was a growing into a powerful was the most imposing specimen of a have enough horses to run so they don’t get him. but when the auction “hammer fell, horse with a big, long stride.