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Arcangelo surges down the final stretch to win the 2023 Belmont Stakes, making Jena Antonucci the first woman to train a Triple Crown race winner.

NEW YORK -- Jena Antonucci turned a Triple Crown marred by thoroughbred deaths on the track and threatened by bad air quality from wildfires in Canada into a celebration for racing and women.

Jena Antonucci turned the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown into a celebration for horse racing and women.

Jena Antonucci turned a Triple Crown marred by thoroughbred deaths on the track and threatened by bad air quality from wildfires in Canada into a celebration for racing and women.

Arcangelo took the lead at the top of the stretch and won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, making Jena Antonucci the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race.

Jena Antonucci's Arcangelo skipped the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

If Arcangelo races, Jena Antonucci will become the 11th female trainer to have a horse in the final jewel of the Triple Crown, and the first since Kathy Ritvo sent out Mucho Macho Man to a seventh-place finish in 2011.

Antonucci is hoping to become the first female traininer to win the Belmont Stakes with her thoroughbred, Antonucci.

Projected favorite Forte has drawn Post 6 in a field of nine horses for this year's 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes.

Antonucci looks forward to whatever the future brings with Arcangelo, whether that’s a try in the Belmont Stakes or in one of the other Grade 1’s later this summer.