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In 1919, Sir Barton was the first horse to claim the Triple Crown, capturing the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year. Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978) have followed in infamy.

In order to win a Triple Crown, a horse must win three long races in five weeks, at three different tracks, in three different states. Triple Crown hopefuls must first win the Kentucky Derby, where Aristedes grabbed the inaugural "Run for the Roses" in 1875. Barring injury, the Derby winner is shipped to the second jewel of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. Survivor was the first Preakness winner in 1873. A Derby-Preakness champ then has a shot at Triple Crown immortality at the Belmont Stakes. The first Belmont winner was Ruthless in 1867.

There have been 18 horses that have won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown and failed to win at the Belmont. Two of them, Burgoo King in 1932 and Bold Venture in 1936, didn't run in New York.

For the fifth time in the last seven years, a horse will go into the Belmont starting gate with a chance to win the Triple Crown. Funny Cide follows the Bob Baffert-trained War Emblem, who in 2002 stumbled at the start of the race and finished eighth. Prior to that attempt, there were three straight years that had horses trying for the Crown: Baffert trainees Silver Charm and Real Quiet each finished second in the Belmont, in 1997 and 1998 respectively, while in 1999, Charismatic came home third.

Triple Crown Betting

What a five weeks it has been! The Kentucky Derby showed us online racebook fans that sometimes the best horse wins the race. The Preakness Stakes showed us online racebook fans that sometimes the best horse can carry his form into a race two weeks later and dominate. The Belmont Stakes showed us that there is a reason that only eleven horses have won the Triple Crown. Will there be another Triple Crown winner? Yes, but it won't be Big Brown and it won't be a horse who has to fight off a quarter-crack and overrated breeding.

It will be a horse that not only has the most talent, but doesn't have a single issue within those five weeks. Everything must set up perfectly for a horse to win the Triple Crown. That's why it's so difficult to do. It depends on extreme luck. The sort of luck that nobody ever has.

A horse has to go 1 ¼ miles in the Kentucky Derby, 1 3/16th miles in the Preakness Stakes, and then 1 ½ miles in the Belmont Stakes and the horse has to do it all within five weeks.

Big Brown was only running in his sixth lifetime race in the Belmont Stakes. He only had one race as a two-year old. It was Da'Tara's eight lifetime race. Two of Da'Tara's races occurred when he was a two-year old. Conditioning might have had something to do with Big Brown's bust this past Saturday.

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