O/T -- Grinning Ear To Ear! -- Chrome Was Just Shy Last Year; But Pharoah. . . Just Did It!

Confession time: I've been a rather rabid fan of horseracing ever since my early college days.

I've been a bettor, at Churchill Downs, on and off, since the early 1980s. . .

And now, for the first time since (ahem!) I was in high school, I am looking at. . . a Triple Crown winner.

Congrats to American Pharoah -- My lil' California Chrome fell a little short, at Belmont, last year. This year -- for the first time in 37 -- the top of that rare mountain air, all of it, in fact, belongs to a. . . Pharoah!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled life sciences blogging. . . .