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Triple Crown
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  • Serving up Triple Crown Chili Dogs and You Bet Your Burgers and chasing off drunks and broke people who went around the tables eating nondairy creamer straight out of the packets would be fantastic.†   (source)
  • The Belmont, the final conquest of the Triple Crown, set his name in stone.†   (source)
  • He took the victory, the Triple Crown, his father's track record, and an American speed record.†   (source)
  • War Admiral, though outfooted, was running well, and he had a Triple Crown winner's staying power.†   (source)
  • The Triple Crown winner was a hellion, repeatedly barging through the gate and dragging the assistant starter with him.†   (source)
  • As War Admiral walked to the line alongside the flagman and starter Cassidy, Woolf worked to fray the Triple Crown winner's famously delicate nerves.†   (source)
  • He thought War Admiral simply had more God-given speed than Seabiscuit, and that the Triple Crown winner would surely beat him off of the line.†   (source)
  • On the wall near the Triple Crown winner's stall was a little shrine to Man o' War and Brushup, War Admiral's mother.†   (source)
  • He found one last success on the track, this time with the great Noor, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap and conqueror of Triple Crown winner Citation.†   (source)
  • In the spring of '36 Fitzsimmons set off for the Triple Crown prep races with Granville, leaving Seabiscuit in the hands of assistant trainer George Tappen.†   (source)
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  • As Seabiscuit ground through his first season, Fitzsimmons was touring the nation amid a storm of publicity as Sea-biscuit's stablemate, Omaha, made a successful assault on the Triple Crown.†   (source)
  • Invariably, hundreds of people fanned out around the track apron to watch the Triple Crown winner, who had come to Pimlico after crushing the field in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.†   (source)
  • His controversial rivalry with Triple Crown winner War Admiral culminated in a spectacular match race that is still widely regarded as the greatest horse race ever run.†   (source)
  • In a storied career of twenty-three races, through the Triple Crown and virtually every fabled race in the East, no one had ever seen all War Admiral could give.†   (source)
  • Though Seabiscuit was now amply good enough for the Triple Crown, and probably would have swept it, he had missed his chance; the series is only open to three-year-olds, and he was about to turn four.†   (source)
  • Not all races are handicaps—in the Triple Crown, for example, all male horses carry 126 pounds—but most top races for older horses, including the Santa Anita Handicap, are handicaps.†   (source)
  • In early June, as Seabiscuit was being humiliated in a cheap stakes race in New Hampshire, Granville finally lived up to expectations by winning New York's Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown.†   (source)
  • The Triple Crown winner had become so unruly that before many of his races, the battered assistant starters gave up on loading him into the gate and instead let him walk up to the break on the far outside of the gate while the other horses started from a standstill inside it.†   (source)
  • Their thoughts were occupied by weightier names: world-record holder Indian Broom; speed demon Special Agent; and above them all, the magnificent Rosemont, king of the East and conqueror of 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha.†   (source)
  • On the day in 1942 when he rode Triple Crown winner Whirlaway to break Seabiscuit's earnings record, Pollard was up in the stands cheering him on with his usual lack of restraint, bouncing around the box, rooting himself hoarse, and drawing the stares of everyone nearby.†   (source)
  • The work paid off: Fitzsimmons had cultivated the talents of myriad champions, including Gallant Fox and Omaha, two of the first three horses to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—the Triple Crown.†   (source)
  • To the Triple Crown I'd not bow down— But this is a different thing!†   (source)
  • , permitting his vanity to aspire to the triple crown,5 entertained hopes of succeeding in the acquisition of that splendid prize by the influence of the Emperor Charles V. To secure the favor and interest of this enterprising and powerful monarch, he precipitated England into a war with France, contrary to the plainest dictates of policy, and at the hazard of the safety and independence, as well of the kingdom over which he presided by his counsels, as of Europe in general.†   (source)
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