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The English Triple Crown Winners is a three-race competition for Thoroughbred racehorses. The English Triple Crown consists of the 2000 Guineas Stakes (at 1 mile), The Derby (at 1½ miles), and the St Leger Stakes (at 1 mile 6 furlongs and 127 yds) although the distances have varied throughout the years.
For many years, it was considered unlikely that any horse would ever win the English Triple Crown again. In the winter of 2006/2007, however, trainer Jim Bolger was training his unbeaten colt Teofilo for the Triple Crown [1] and bookmaker William Hill plc was offering odds of only 12/1 against Teofilo winning the 2007 Triple Crown. The horse ...
Many horses have won two classics, some of whom have gone on to attempt the Triple Crown, losing in the last leg at Doncaster. The most recent example of this was the Aidan O'Brien trained Camelot, who finished second in the St Leger in 2012 after winning the 2,000 Guineas and Derby.
The 1940s were a good time for horse racing, and a good time for the Triple Crown, with four horses taking home the title in an eight-year period. Whirlaway, owned by the famed Camulet Farm, won ...
The last horse to win the Triple Crown was Justify ... between 1978 winner Affirmed and 2015 winner American Pharoah. The second-longest drought was 25 years, between 1948 winner Citation and 1973 ...
It is the last of the five to be run each year, and its distance is longer than any of the other four. The St Leger is the final leg of the English Triple Crown, which begins with the 2000 Guineas and continues with the Derby. It also completes the Fillies' Triple Crown, following on from the 1000 Guineas and the Oaks.
National Treasure wins the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown hours after one of the Hall of Fame trainer’s favorites was euthanized on the track after an undercard event.
Real Quiet: winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes; lost the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, by a margin of four inches Red Rum : only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times (placed second on two other occasions)