Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse, if not by any athlete (human or animal). In recent years, the triple crown has become a very rare achievement, with most horses specialising on a limited range of distances.

United Kingdom

In England, where the term Triple Crown originated with West Australian's three wins in 1853, it is made up of:

Related Topics:
England - West Australian

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• the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes or One Thousand Guineas Stakes (fillies only race) at Newmarket Heath, Newmarket, Suffolk;
• the Epsom Derby or Epsom Oaks (fillies only race) at Epsom Downs, Epsom, Surrey;
• the St. Leger Stakes at Town Moor, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

In the 150 years that these races have been run, only 15 horses have ever won the English Triple Crown, including the great Nijinsky II. Nijinsky II is only the second horse to have won the English Triple Crown since the end of World War I. It is unlikely that any horse will ever win the English Triple Crown again. Since Nijinsky, only Nashwan in 1989 has won both the Guineas and the Derby, and in addition no Derby winner has even entered the St Leger since Reference Point in 1987.

Related Topics:
Nijinsky II - World War I

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Winners

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• 1853 - West Australian
• 1865 - Gladiateur
• 1866 - Lord Lyon
• 1886 - Ormonde
• 1891 - Common
• 1893 - Isinglass
• 1897 - Galtee More
• 1899 - Flying Fox
• 1900 - Diamond Jubilee
• 1903 - Rock Sand
• 1915 - Pommern
• 1917 - Gay Crusader
• 1918 - Gainsborough
• 1935 - Bahram
• 1970 - Nijinsky II