162nd day of 2009 - 203 remaining
Thursday, June 11, 2009
TRIPLE CROWN DAY
Racing back to 1919 ... Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New
York to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. It was on
this day that the Belmont Stakes was first run as part of thoroughbred
the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -- the Kentucky Derby in
Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Triple Crown is for three-year-olds only and has only been
achieved by ten horses other than Sir Barton: Gallant Fox in 1930;
Affirmed, the following year.
Jim Fitzsimmons, the trainer of Gallant Fox and Omaha; and Ben
Jones, who trained Whirlaway and Citation are the only trainers to
have two winners in the Triple Crown circle.
Eddy Arcaro is the jockey who holds the most wins at the Kentucky
Derby [5], Preakness Stakes [6], and Belmont Stakes [6]. Although he
shares these records with other jockeys, he is the only one to have
won the Triple Crown twice -- with Whirlaway and Citation.
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