Winning the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Horse Racing is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. It takes the right horse, the right jockey, and a little bit of luck to be one of the Triple Crown winners.

1. Fastest Triple Crown Race Times
2. Triple Crown Horse Contenders

Only 13 times has a horse won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Justify won in 2018 giving trainer Bob Baffert the most recent two. When American Pharoah won in 2015 he became the first winner since 1978. That 37 year winless drought was the longest in the history of this award.

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He sired Woodward’s 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha from his first crop. Gallant Fox ranks No. 28 on The Blood-Horse ’s Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century. Seattle Slew- (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred race horse who won the Triple Crown in 1977—the tenth of eleven horses to accomplish the feat. He remains the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated.

Following a 37-year drought in Triple Crown Winners, American Pharoah famously ran to victory in the 2015 Belmont Stakes. And most recently, Justify prevailed in all 3 races in 2018 to make Bob Baffert one of only two trainers with multiple Triple Crown winners (Jim Fitzsimmons was the other with Gallant Fox in 1930 and Omaha in 1935.

Fastest Triple Crown Race Times

Since 1919, only 13 horses have won the title of Triple Crown winner by finishing first in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year. Sir Barton, foaled at Hamburg Place Farm in Lexington, Ky., was the first Triple Crown winner in 1919, before the. Secretariat (1973) His 31-length victory in the Belmont remains the most impressive performance.

Triple Crown Horse Contenders