Tag Archives: Triple Crown

Not sure who to pay attention to this Kentucky Derby season? The Kentucky Derby trail is quickly heating up with less than 100 days until the Derby, and it can...

We've been so spoiled of late. First it was California Chrome, the gleaming chestnut with the truck stop owners who stirred over 100,000 people to Belmont Park in 2014. Last...

Let’s take a minute to talk about this race, shall we? War Admiral’s performance in the 1937 Belmont Stakes is almost certainly the high point of his amazing career. Beyond...

Count Fleet, racing's sixth Triple Crown champion, was always known to be an enthusiastic stud who never really outgrew his love for the ladies. This preoccupation sometimes got him into trouble, such...

Look, we'd like to see Nyquist get his proverbial "Preak on" this afternoon at Pimlico and keep this party going another couple of weeks. What can we say? The Triple...

This week John and Darin recap the Kentucky Derby and look ahead to the Preakness Stakes. Along with that, we dig a bit deeper into the story of Nyquist's jockey Mario Gutierrez. The...

He arrived 30 years ago today. Undersized and bow-legged, no one could have predicted back then this charcoal son of Halo would soon reach the pinnacle of his sport. That...

One of horse racing's most beloved modern stars is back in the news this week. 2004 dual classic winner Smarty Jones is leaving his native Pennsylvania to stand at Kentucky's...

With Saturday's romp into retirement, American Pharoah put an emphatic stamp on a brief but legendary career. As racing's first Grand Slam champion, his 3-year-old campaign will go down as...

Twenty years from now, Lord willing, someone will ask you about the 2015 Belmont Stakes and its champion, American Pharoah. And you will of course remember exactly where you were,...

California Chrome—certified American Hero—The People's Horse—The Triple Crown Slump Buster—staggered home in yesterday's Belmont Stakes in a tie for 4th. Deflating, to say the least, but not unfathomable, if you've...

By the time Secretariat arrived at the Belmont in 1973, the world knew his name. His record setting romps in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes solidified this glistening chestnut...