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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.
As of 2024, he is the last horse to accomplish the feat of sweeping the English Triple Crown: since 1970 only Reference Point (1987), Nashwan (1989), Sea The Stars (2009) and Camelot (2012) have won two of the three races, but Oh So Sharp won the filly's version of the Triple Crown in 1985.
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 ...
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 ...
Nijinsky, the last winner of the Triple Crown in 1970 In 1902 Sceptre became the only racehorse to win four British Classic Races outright, winning both Guineas, the Oaks and the St Leger. Previously, in 1868, Formosa won the same four races but dead-heated in the 2,000 Guineas .
But once the cheers softened and the rose garlands were put away, attention once again turned to the horse that caught the world's attention Today in history: Secretariat wins greatest Triple ...
No horse had won the Triple Crown in 25 years, so despite Secretariat’s greatness there were doubters based only on history. But those who saw the race had never seen such dominance from any horse.
Isinglass: sixth winner of the English Triple Crown (1892) Isonomy: very successful racehorse and sire of The English Triple Crown winner Isinglass. Itsmyluckyday is a multiple graded stakes winner who finished second in the 2013 Preakness Stakes to Oxbow and won the Woodward Stakes in 2014.