Belmont Stakes Guide: I'll Have Another Attempts to Become 12th Triple Crown Winner in History

	Belmont Stakes Guide: I'll Have Another Attempts to Become 12th Triple Crown Winner in History He was a horse with no name, a yearling in a sales ring at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., about 90 minutes from Churchill Downs, home of the most famous race in the universe, the Kentucky Derby. An exercise rider working for a training center in Florida liked what he saw, bought the colt for the low price of $11000 with the idea of preparing him for the races, then selling him as a 2-year-old for a nifty profit. If he had only known. That unnamed baby became I'll Have Another, an extraordinary thoroughbred who with a win in Saturday's Belmont Stakes would become the 12th Triple Crown champion, and first in 34 years. "I never saw this coming," says Dennis O'Neill, the brother of I'll Have Another's trainer, Doug, who picked out the horse at the Ocala Breeders' Sale for 2-year-olds in training in April 2011, and bought him for a modest $35000 for owner J. Paul Reddam. "Nowhere in our wildest dreams did we think we had a Derby winner," says Doug O'Neill. "I'm a very lucky guy to have such an amazing horse." The story of I'll Have Another began at Brookdale Farm, 500 acres of Bluegrass in Versailles, Ky. That's where the stallion Flower Alley was bred to Harvey Clarke's mare Arch's Gal Edith. Flower Alley won the 2005 Travers Stakes and finished second in the Breeders' Cup Classic. His father was Distorted Humor, who produced 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide. On I'll Have Another's mother's side, there is a long line of horses with speed and stamina, an asset <b>...</b>	From:FirstRaceTv Views:0 0ratings
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