Horse Racing Triple Crown Winners
Everyone Can be a Fan by John Parks
If you are a sports fan in any way then the chances are that once a year, for a stretch of about a month, you become a fan of horse racing in some form or another. Even a sports fan that says they never follow horse racing can find themselves caught up in the annual stories that surround the dash for the American triple crown of horse racing and that triple crown starts every year with the world famous Kentucky Derby.
There are several horse racing triple crowns in various parts of the world but few receive the international attention of the American Horse Racing Triple Crown and few horse races in the world receive the international attention that the Kentucky Derby receives each and every year. Regardless of what is going on in the world, whether there is war or financial crisis going on, dignitaries and regular fans from all over the world converge on Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky to see which horse will start their trek to become the next triple crown horse race winner in American horse racing history.
The Kentucky Derby is the first major stage that many of these three-year-old horses get a chance to perform on and it becomes obvious to those in attendance that all of the attention can sometimes affect these great animals. Even horses can get nervous and sometimes a nervous horse can turn a sure thing into a last place finish.
After the Kentucky Derby the competitors move on to the Preakness Stakes which is run at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Pimlico has been an important home to American horse racing for many years and it is a wonderful place for people to gather to watch the second jewel in the triple crown of American horse racing.
The final jewel in the triple crown of American horse racing is the Belmont Stakes which is run at the world famous Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The Kentucky Derby is famous for being nicknamed the “Run for the Roses” but it is not known to many casual racing fans that the Belmont has its famous nickname too and that is the “Run for the Carnations.” The winning horse is draped with a curtain of white carnations after the Belmont much in the same way the winning horse in the Kentucky Derby I draped in beautiful roses.
From that period of early April to early May almost every sports fan gets caught up in the run for the American triple crown of horse racing. Whether it is the drama of a story such as Alydar who is the only horse to finish second in every triple crown race in one year or the tragedy of Barbaro who won the Kentucky Derby and then sustained an fatal injury in the Preakness people find themselves tuned in to American horse racing to see who will win the next American triple crown of horse racing. The last triple crown winner was Affirmed in 1978 so the next winner will break through over thirty years of drama and tragedy to be one of immortal names in American horse racing.
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Affirmed: 1978 triple crown winner
