Triple Crown wagering is made up of three races, the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.
Triple Crown races are the most popular horse races for gamblers other than the Breeders’ Cup. Only eleven horses have been Triple Crown betting winners and none since Affirmed in 1978.
Triple Crown history shows that the first winner was Sir Barton in 1919. There have been 43 horses that won two of the three Triple Crown betting races but failed to win all three. Triple Crown wagering is unique because you have three different races. The Kentucky Derby is often a crapshoot as the favorite rarely wins. In the Preakness and Belmont the Triple Crown betting is different because in the Preakness you have the Derby winner while in the Belmont you have a mix of horses. The Derby is the longshot Triple Crown race that can feature big payouts in the trifecta and superfecata, the Preakness the favorite Triple Crown wagering race and the Belmont the most unpredictable Triple Crown race.
There are other factors that make Triple Crown interesting. You have the length of the races and their schedule. Usually horses get 14 to 60 days off between races. In Triple Crown wagering, the contenders have to run 3 races within five weeks. The Derby is a mile and a quarter; the Preakness is a mile and three sixteenth while the Belmont is a mile and half. The Belmont is the longest of the three Triple Crown betting races and the longest the horses will have ever gone. There have been 17 horses that have won the first two jewels in Triple Crown and did not win the Belmont. Two of them, Burgoo King in 1932 and Bold Venture in 1936, didn’t run in New York.
We mentioned that the first Triple Crown winner was Sir Barton in 1919. Other Triple Crown winners were Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978).