Justify Achieves Immortality as Racing’s 13th Triple Crown Winner

Justify wins the 2018 Belmont Stakes to become horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner (photo by Jordan Thomson).

Justify wins the 2018 Belmont Stakes to become horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner (photo by Jordan Thomson).

There was a good reason why there were only 12.

Since Sir Barton in 1919 became the first winner of the three races now known as horse racing’s Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes — only 11 others over a nearly 100-year period followed, names we now recognize as legends in the sport: Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed and most recently American Pharoah.

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