• Triple Crown, in American horse racing, title awarded to a three-year-old Thoroughbred that wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in a single season. Since 1875, the first year in which all three races were in existence simultaneously, only 13 horses have accomplished the feat.
• Only a dozen more thoroughbreds have won the coveted Triple Crown of horse racing in the 100 years since Sir Barton became the first to win all three big races — the Kentucky Derby, the.

1. What Is The Triple Crown
2. Weights Of Triple Crown Winners
3. Complete List Of Triple Crown Winners
4. How Many Triple Crown Winners In Snooker

Triple Crown Winners. 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. Only 13 times has a horse won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

What Is The Triple Crown

Weights Of Triple Crown Winners

In 1973, arguably the greatest race horse of all time, Secretariat, won the Kentucky Derby. Nicknamed “Big Red”, for his reddish brown color, Secretariat broke several records in his 16 month racing career.

Complete List Of Triple Crown Winners

Secretariat didn't go undefeated in his career, but he did finish 'in the money' in all but one of his 21 lifetime races. One of Secretariat's defeats was to a horse named Sham, another one of history’s greatest race horses. Sham beat Secretariat in the Wood Memorial, just weeks before the Kentucky Derby, so each of the horses’ connections was eager and anxious to face one another, again, on the first Saturday in May. In a field of 14 horses, Sham led in the Kentucky Derby race until Secretariat caught up with him half way down the finishing stretch. Secretariat went on to win the Kentucky Derby, two and a half lengths ahead of Sham, and with a world-record finish time of 1:59 2/5 – “Big Red” cracked the two minute race time, as did Sham as the second place finisher.

What's more impressive was Secretariat's response to the pressure of his fans and the media to be the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Just two weeks following the Kentucky Derby, Secretariat won the Preakness Stakes. Then, just a few weeks later, only 4 horses went on to challenge Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes. He did more than win the Belmont, Secretariat set two more world–records — he finished the Belmont's one and half mile race in 2:24 seconds, and he won the race 31 lengths ahead of the second place finisher. Secretariat's victory was by such a large margin, that not even the widest camera angle could show him in the same shot as the next nearest horse.

How Many Triple Crown Winners In Snooker

To this day, the greatest race horses are compared to the performance of Secretariat.