Andy Farrell wary of Scotland’s Triple Crown incentive against Ireland
Andy Farrell believes the chance to end a 34-year Triple Crown drought makes Scotland a major threat to Ireland’s Guinness Six Nations title bid.
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N.B.'s Turcotte remembers U.S. Triple Crown as Secretariat honoured in Kentucky
Fifty years after he ran his last race, the great stallion Secretariat is still being honoured in his home state of Kentucky.
Dave Berry out to take Manhattan in Triple Crown swimming bid
Battling biting cold, jellyfish stings, dolphin encounters and extreme exhaustion have all been in a day's work since I took up long distance swimming in 2022.
Pogacar takes Lombardia triple crown as Pinot heads into retirement
Tadej Pogacar capped a remarkable season when the won the Giro di Lombardia, the last of five Monument classics, for the third year in a row as France's Thibaut Pinot got a memorable send-off on Saturday.
2 horses die at Belmont Park, adding another black eye for sport during Triple Crown season
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Jena Antonucci becomes 1st female trainer to win Triple Crown race as Arcangelo prevails at Belmont Stakes
Arcangelo took the lead at the top of the stretch and won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, making Jena Antonucci the first female trainer to win the race in its 155 years.
Racing at Belmont Park resumes ahead final leg of Triple Crown as air quality conditions improve: officials
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For 50 years, this image has defined Secretariat’s famed Triple Crown. Who took it?
Four days before the running of last month’s Kentucky Derby, a story was posted on NBCSports.com under my byline, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown, and more specifically, his climactic, 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes in a time of two minutes, 24 seconds, still two seconds faster than any other thoroughbred has run the race. The story was, as the writer says in Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter, “… the kind of story I enjoy…” A joyful story. Secretariat and his Belmont are cultural touchstones of stunning durability and power in modern American sports, almost bereft of negativity. As I wrote in the piece, only the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s gold medal – the “The Miracle On Ice” – is in the same league for evoking a certain type of emotional response. If you can find the right entry point, and you know your way around a keyboard, Big Red is storytelling gold. Check, and check.