ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Steve Asmussen won his first Belmont Stakes on Saturday, and he kept wanting to relive the moment over and over Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning.  “I woke up every 15 minutes to watch the replay,” Asmussen said at his Belmont Park barn Sunday morning.  What he saw, again and again on that replay, was Creator getting up in the very last jump to beat Destin by a nose and win the 148th Belmont Stakes. The victory came five weeks after Creator finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby, in which he ran into severe traffic nearing the quarter pole and was eliminated.  “You’re disappointed that you may have lost your window in the Derby,” Asmussen said of the opportunity to win a classic with Creator. “I’m glad he didn’t sour off that trip.”  Creator got a Beyer Speed Figure of 99 in the Belmont, a career-best by three points over his Arkansas Derby win.  After an ambitious campaign that saw Creator go from a maiden winner to a two-time, Grade 1 winner – including a classic – in 3 1/2 months, he will get a brief freshening at the Kentucky farm of his majority owner, Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm, before embarking on his campaign the second half of the year.  Asmussen said Creator would travel to Kentucky on Monday, and that the main goal for the summer was the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 27.  “He won the Belmont, here in New York, so you’d love for Creator to be at his best for the Travers,” Asmussen said.  Asmussen said that after asking Creator to come as far as he did in such a short amount of time -- including a victory in the Arkansas Derby and a troubled trip in the Kentucky Derby -- it was the “responsible thing” to give Creator a brief break now, what he called a “mental freshening.”  “Let him unwind, see how he responds,” said Asmussen, who said Creator appeared to come out of the race in good order.  Gettysburg, the pacemaker for Creator who finished eighth, also is headed to WinStar to be freshened, Asmussen said.  Asmussen credited WinStar chief executive officer Elliott Walden with the decision to put Gettysburg in the race.  “Great move with Gettysburg,” said Asmussen, who said Gettysburg’s presence helped “stretch the race out,” preventing everyone from being bottled up in the same spot behind a slower pace.  Destin, beaten a nose when finishing second, and Stradivari, who was fifth, both were in good condition Sunday morning, according to their trainer, Todd Pletcher, who said the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 30 and Grade 1, $1 million Haskell at Monmouth on July 31 are under consideration for both, and that Stradivari could even go in the $100,000 Curlin at Saratoga on July 29, since he’s eligible for that race.  Pletcher admitted it was a tough loss with Destin. This was the second time in three years Pletcher was narrowly beaten in the Belmont. Tonalist beat Commissioner by a head in 2014.  “A lot of similarities. Two pretty tough beats,” Pletcher said.  “I'm proud of the horse’s effort,” Pletcher said of Destin, “but it’s frustrating all the same.”  Adding to the frustration is that Gettysburg, who had been trained by Pletcher, was transferred by WinStar the week of the Belmont to Asmussen to act as a pacemaker for Creator, and contributed to the victory by Creator at the expense of Destin.  “I have horses for a lot of owners,” Pletcher said. “It wasn’t in our best interests to run Gettysburg, so they,” Pletcher said, referring to WinStar, “had to make a decision as to what was in their best interest.”  Lani, the third-place finisher in the Belmont, began a week of quarantine at Belmont Park on Sunday and is scheduled to ship back to Japan on June 19, according to Keita Tanaka, agent for owner Koji Maeda.  Tanaka said Lani will get some rest -- “he deserves that,” Tanaka said -- before pointing to a fall campaign that will target the Champions Cup (formerly the Japan Cup Dirt) on Dec. 4 at Chukyo Racecourse.  Lani and Exaggerator -- the Preakness winner who finished 11th in the Belmont -- are the only two horses who ran in all three Triple Crown races. Lani, like Creator a Kentucky-bred son of Tapit, finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby, fifth in the Preakness, and third, beaten 1 1/2 lengths by Creator, in the Belmont.  Tanaka said Lani’s connections are “super happy how he ran in the Triple Crown races.”  Exaggerator was “the same bright, vibrant self,” on Sunday morning, trainer Keith Desormeaux said.  “He ate up, his legs are clean,” Desormeaux said. “He’s not the wild horse he usually is, but he’s bright-eyed.”  Desormeaux said Exaggerator would remain in New York with his assistant, Julie Clark, and would be aimed at the Jim Dandy -- which Desormeaux won last year with Texas Red -- and then the Travers.  “He’s earned a nice freshening," Desormeaux said of the seven weeks until the Jim Dandy.  Exaggerator won the Santa Anita Derby, was second in the Kentucky Derby, then won the Preakness before the Belmont. In 11 prior starts, he had never finished worse than fifth. And though Exaggerator has scored his five wins at five different tracks, Desormeaux said the only theory he could come up with on Sunday is that Exaggerator just didn’t care for the sandy Belmont Park surface.  “It’s a sandy track, and he’d never raced on it,” Desormeaux said. He said Exaggerator “didn’t have much left” when his brother, jockey Kent Desormeaux, let him coast to the wire the final furlong.  “Kent felt him weakening,” Desormeaux said. “He didn’t want to overdo it when he couldn’t get a check. He did the right thing.”  Desormeaux said running second in the Derby and getting his first classic victory three weeks ago in the Preakness left him with “plenty to be happy about” during this Triple Crown campaign. additional reporting by David Grening