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The 2014 Belmont Stakes was the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes. It was run on June 7, 2014, and was televised on NBC. California Chrome had a chance to complete the third leg of the Triple Crown after his victories in the 2014 Kentucky Derby and the 2014 Preakness Stakes. [1] However, it was Tonalist who won the race.
11 Triple Crown Winners in 2012 honored at Belmont Park, before additional wins in 2015 and 2018. After the first Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton, in 1919, there was not another winner until Gallant Fox in 1930, a gap of 11 years. Between 1930 and 1948, seven horses won the Triple Crown, with five years being the longest gap between winners.
In 2014, the Hall of Fame decided to honor the five horses who had won the three races before 1959, meaning 12 horses are now officially recognized as winning the Canadian Triple Crown. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
A Triple Crown is right up there among the greatest accomplishments in sports — there's a reason it took 37 years between Affirmed's sweep in 1978 and American Pharoah's triumph in 2015.
How many horses have won the Triple Crown? Thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown. The first was Sir Barton, in 1919. The most recent was Justify, in 2018, nearly 100 years later.
Saturday’s ‘Midsummer Derby’ at Saratoga pits this year’s top 3-year-old horses against each other one more time.
[104] [105] The decisive win made him an early favorite to win the 2014 Kentucky Derby and raised speculation that he had the talent to win the Triple Crown. [106] California Chrome's four consecutive wins had a combined victory margin of 24 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths. [107] After the Santa Anita Derby, Sherman began to describe the colt as "my Swaps". [22]
These four races are sometimes also called the Superfecta or Quadruple Crown. [1] [2] The Breeders' Cup Classic Grand Slam has been possible since 1984. Both configurations have been successful once. Whirlaway won the Triple Crown and Travers Stakes in 1941, and American Pharoah won the Triple Crown and Breeder's Cup Classic in 2015.