NEW YORK (AP) — Luis Saez looked up to the sky after winning the Belmont Stakes aboard Essential Quality. It was not hard to think the words going through his mind were: ‘This one is for you, Juan.’ The win the Belmont was Saez’s first official one in a Triple Crown race but it it meant so much more, thinking of his brother Juan. The 17-year-old apprentice rider was killed in a racing accident in 2014 in Indiana when his mount clipped heels with the horse in front of them. They went down and he sustained fatal head trauma.
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