Winning one big race is hard enough, so winning three on the trot must be impossible, right?
Wrong.
Since 1919, 13 thoroughbred horses have taken out the feted American Triple Crown, winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont stakes in the same year.
Stretching back over a century, here are the 13 groups of horses, trainers and jockeys to have saluted on the dirt tracks of Churchill Downs, Pimlico and Belmont Park.
- Sir Barton (1919) - H. Guy Bedwell (trainer)/Johnny Loftus (jockey)
- Gallant Fox (1930) - Jim Fitzsimmons/Earl Sande
- Omaha (1935) - Jim Fitzsimmons/Willie Saunders
- War Admiral (1937) - George. H Conway/Charley Kurtsinger
- Whirlaway (1941) - Ben A. Jones/Eddie Arcaro
- Count Fleet (1943) - Don Cameron/Johnny Longden
- Assault (1946) - Max Hirsch/Warren Mehrtens
- Citation (1948) - Horace A. Jones/Eddie Arcaro
- Secretariat (1973) - Lucien Laurin/Ron Turcotte
- Seattle Slew (1977) - William H. Turner Jr./Jean Cruguet
- Affirmed (1978) - Laz Barrera/Steve Cauthin
- American Pharoah (2015) - Bob Baffert/Victor Espinoza
- Justify (2018) - Bob Baffert/Mike E. Smith