Triple Crown winner
Three-race thoroughbred champion
A Triple Crown winner is a horse that has won all three races in a prestigious series—in American thoroughbred racing, the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.
The term extends to other sports where winning three major titles constitutes a Triple Crown: He became a Triple Crown winner by leading the league in batting average, home runs, and RBIs.
- SecretariatRecord-setting Triple Crown champion
- BelmontNew York racecourse
- Kentucky DerbyPremier American thoroughbred race
- PreaknessBaltimore thoroughbred stakes race
- thoroughbredOf pure ancestral line
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- horseshorse, mare, mares, stallion, stallions
Triple Crown winnerbust
Failure or sculpture
flop · disappointment · washout · underachiever · journeyman
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