The last five of his Belmont winners were all for the Dwyer Brothers.
Swale was the only one of Stephens's five Belmont winners to run in the Preakness.
Lukas did, Day believed, and the Lewises finally have a Belmont winner.
"How can the Belmont winner and the Haskell winner not be favored?"
So the only role model she said she wanted to fill was that of a Belmont winner.
And going back even farther, 9 of the last 15 Belmont winners sat out the Derby and the Preakness.
Schulhofer trained many top horses, but perhaps none had a greater impact on the sport than his 1993 Belmont winner, Colonial Affair.
He says his son of A.P. Indy, the 1992 Belmont winner, was born to win this race.
No other Belmont winner has ever gone to the post at odds so high.
He beat the Preakness and Belmont winners, and he finished second.