History happened at Saturday’s Belmont and ESPN’s team was part of it

ESPN senior writer Dana O’Neil: “I snapped this picture of American Pharoah getting his pre-race bath two hours before he would cross the finish line into history. What struck me then is even more amazing now, after the horse has captivated millions by winning the Triple Crown – the anonymity. Aside from trainer, Bob Baffert, the groom handling the bathing, and a small collection of reporters gazing from afar, no one was around. Literally a few feet away is the busy Hempstead Turnpike, and right beyond the grassy area where American Pharoah had his bath and behind a row of hedges and a fence was some anonymous deli and grill. If the people eating their pastrami on rye only knew…”