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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.
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, often shortened to Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for Thoroughbreds, often restricted to three-year-olds. Winning all three of these Thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment in Thoroughbred racing.
Owners of Preakness Stakes winners (2 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winners" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
Sir Barton was the first winner back in 1919 before the term "Triple Crown" had even been coined. An underdog coming into the race, Sir Barton led every step of the way in the 45th Kentucky Derby ...
Secretariat (horse) Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three of its constituent races. He is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time.
Cessna Citation by Cessna Aircraft Co. Last updated on 15 September 2010. Citation (April 11, 1945 – August 8, 1970) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the eighth winner of the American Triple Crown. He won 16 consecutive stakes races and was the first horse in history to win US$ 1 million.
Assault, winner of the 1946 Triple Crown. In 1937, War Admiral became the fourth Triple Crown winner after winning the Belmont in a new track record time of 2:28 3/5. [15] In the 1940s, four Triple Crown winners followed: Whirlaway in 1941, Count Fleet in 1943, Assault in 1946 and Citation in 1948.
US$2 million (2024) 1st: $1.2 million [1] The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I race run over a distance of 16 miles (9.5 furlongs; 1.9 kilometres) on dirt.