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Triple Crown 2008
The Triple Crown is made out of three thoroughbred races which are:
Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, & Belmont Stakes. Winning the Triple Crown means winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races and it is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred horse. In recent years, the Triple Crown has become a very rare achievement with most horses specializing on a limited range of distances.
The first race of this Triple Crown event starts on the third Saturday in May where the best of the Derby horses gather to catch the window of opportunity for a Triple Crown prospect. Much goes on during the colorful time of the Triple Crown at Pimlico race track, but it has always been the horse that attacks the horse racing fans.
Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races. However, the term Triple Crown didn't come into use until another eleven years. In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase Triple Crown into American usage.
Fueled by the media, public interest in the possibility of a "superhorse" that could win the Triple Crown began in the weeks leading up to the Derby. Two years after the term was coined, the race, which had been run in mid-May since inception was changed to the first Saturday in May to allow for a specific schedule for the Triple Crown races.
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