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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Hyperion was born on 18 April 1930. [3] He was by the good Thoroughbred sire Gainsborough, who was one of three wartime Triple Crown winners in the United Kingdom.His dam, Selene, was by Chaucer, a talented son of the undefeated St. Simon.
Giacometti (1971 – after 1985) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.In 1974 he became the fourth horse since the Second World War to be placed in all three legs of the British Triple Crown.
No Triple Crown will be on the line Saturday night during the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes to close horse racing’s 2023 Triple Crown season, but plenty of intrigue still remains following ...
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.