Triple Crown

To capture the Triple Crown of American racing, a horse has to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.

The races are for three-year-olds only, so a horse gets only one chance.

Three championship races in a period of just five weeks.

In more than 140 years since the first running of all three races, only twelve horses have managed the feat.

Between the Triple Crown being won in 1978 and 2015, thirteen horses won the first two legs but then failed in their attempt to capture the most elusive prize in world sport.