This year's running of the Kentucky Derby is no exception as it marks the 10-year anniversary of American Pharoah's Triple Crown victory. Ten years ago, American Pharoah became the 12th winner of ...

'We All Believed Again': Looking Back At American Pharoah's Triple Crown originally appeared on Paulick Report.

In 2015, American Pharoah became the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978 American Pharoah has been a successful stallion, producing nine horses who have won Grade 1 or Group ...

The 12th horse to sweep the American classics remains both a physical specimen and generous ambassador still capable of bringing crowds to emotional peaks

Sovereignty topped Journalism again on Saturday evening, winning the 157th running of the Belmont Stakes and claiming two of the three Triple Crown races in 2025.

Close your eyes, think of the most memorable editions of the Belmont Stakes of the past 50 or so years, and what do you see? Perhaps Secretariat moving like a machine. Affirmed and Alydar battling with nothing but a head separating them for a mile.

Instead, not only has the Triple Crown entered yet another dry spell, but no horse has won even two legs of the famed horse-racing gauntlet. Even more, of the 109 horses who have entered the Kentucky Derby since 2019, only two — War of Will in 2019 and Mystik Dan, last year’s Derby winner — went on to race in both the Preakness and the Belmont.

There will not be a 14th Triple Crown winner for the sports world to celebrate at the end of the Belmont Stakes, horse racing’s third jewel.