If you’re above a certain age, you’ll remember that phrase as the iconic tagline in advertisements for Blackglama furs, a campaign that began in the late 1960s and ran for nearly 50 years, associating the fur company’s products with glamorous stars like Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Gisele Bundchen, and Janet Jackson.

The idea was that a Blackglama fur was a product of the highest quality, something singularly appropriate for the elite to wear.

The Belmont Stakes, too, embodies the idea of a singular elite, a horse that can win at a mile and a half, a distance that none of its entrants have run before and are likely to never run again.

So what becomes a Belmont Stakes winner most?

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