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unusual facts about Triple Crown


Euromed Management – School of Management and Business

The school is one of the few business schools in the world that has a Triple Crown accreditation.


2010 24 Hours of Le Mans

Timo Bernhard became the first driver since 2005 to complete the Triple Crown of endurance racing (winning the 2003 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring); Marco Werner (ran aboard a Highcroft Racing LMP2 car this year) was the last one to do such feat (won the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona and completed in 2005 with wins in both Sebring and Le Mans).

David Hofmans

Training for prominent horseman and Magna Entertainment Corp. Chairman, Frank Stronach, in 1997 Hofmans won Canada's most presigious race, the Queen's Plate, with Awesome Again and won the Belmont Stakes that saw his colt Touch Gold end Silver Charm's bid for the U.S.Triple Crown.

Elmont, New York

Elmont is famous as the home of Belmont Park which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the prestigious Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing.

Erin Hannon

In "The Delivery", Erin shows a knowledge of horse racing history as she names the Triple Crown winners to distract Pam before she goes to the hospital.

KQV

In addition to its news content and public affairs programs such as Pittsburgh Profiles and Pittsburgh Global Press Conference, the station is home to a number of live sporting events, including NFL football, Penn State football, and WPIAL football and basketball, as well as the Triple Crown and Masters updates.

Maryland State Fair

The majority stockholder of the Corporation for the M.S.F. & A.S. of B.C., which was now the Maryland Jockey Club (which also owned and operated the famous Pimlico Race Course in northwest Baltimore, and home to the Preakness Stakes - one of thoroughbred horse racing's "Triple Crown"), had agreed to sell.

Nova School of Business and Economics

Moreover, it is one of 59 Triple Crown business schools worldwide which implies accreditation by EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB.

Otis Livingston

He reported on the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, the Triple Crown, and the New York City Marathon.

Sports league

A small amount of league organization may be imposed on these non-league sports by way of a series or tournament tying several individual events together, such as the Triple Crown.

Timo Bernhard

He has also raced for the CytoSport in the 2010 American Le Mans Series season (ALMS) and is a winner of the Triple Crown in endurance racing.


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Alex Honnold

He has broken a number of speed records, most notably the only known solo climb (95% free climbing with a few points of aid) of the Yosemite Triple crown, an 18 hour 50 minute link up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome.

Alexsandro de Souza

Made team captain and wearing jersey number 10, he led his team (which also had other remarkable players, such as Deivid, Edu Dracena, Luisão, Maicon, Aristizábal, Zinho, Felipe Melo, Gomes and Cris) to winning the Brazilian triple crown (that is the State Championship, the Brasileirão and the Brazilian Cup).

Attributed arms

The reason for the triple-crown symbol is unknown, but it was associated with other pre-Norman kings, with the seal of Magnus II of Sweden, with the relics of the Three Wise Men in Cologne (which led to the three crowns in the seal of the University of Cologne), and with the grants of Edward I of England to towns which were symbolized by three crowns in the towns' arms.

Billy Hardwick

There have been only five other Triple Crown winners since: Johnny Petraglia, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes.

Celtic Ash

Unlike today, the $100,000 added Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park Racetrack was run between the Preakness and the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown.

Count Fleet

He won the Withers Stakes before heading to Elmont, New York for the Belmont Stakes where he captured the Triple Crown by scoring a 25-length victory, a record margin that stood until 1973.

Honor Bright

They recorded for Triple Crown in November/December 2009 in Florida with Tom Denney, formerly of A Day To Remember, and Jason Lancaster of Go Radio and formerly of Mayday Parade.

Huh Gak

On September 16, Huh Gak released his first official debut album entitled, “First Story" which obtained a triple crown on Gaon charts and also made him win on M! Countdown and KBS Music Bank.

Johnny Petraglia

Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.

Medicine Hat Blue Jays

Over the years, some of the most notable players to wear a Medicine Hat uniform include Chris Carpenter, David Wells, Lloyd Moseby, Fred Manrique, John Cerutti, Gustavo Chacín, Mike Timlin, and Jay Gibbons, who won the league's Triple Crown in 1998.

Paraguayan football derby

Not to be denied, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Virginio Cáceres and Walter Avalos all scored for Olimpia to turn the game on its head and win the coveted triple crown.

Pianissima

2004 - Polish Spring Champion Filly Polish Spring Show, Best in Show Polish Spring Show, Falborek Show Champion Filly, Best in Show Falborek Arabian Show, Polish National Champion Filly, Best in Show Polish National Show, ANC Champion Filly All Nations Cup - Aachen, European Champion Filly, World Champion Filly, winner of the Arabian Triple Crown, junior (The Arabian triple Crown consists of being Champion at Aachen, European, World)

Process Shot

Her owner, Sonny Werblin of Elberon Farms (who also owned the New York Jets), and trainer J. Bowes Bond decided to run Process Shot in the defacto second jewel of the filly triple crown, the $40,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1969.

Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course has several nicknames: The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), the House of Upsets, and the Graveyard of Champions. Famous race horse Man o' War suffered his only defeat in twenty-one starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion, after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox had been beaten by the 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.

Sir Barton

Later though, his remains were moved to Washington Park in Douglas, Wyoming where a memorial was erected to honor America's first Triple Crown winner.

Skip Bayless

Bayless also won the Eclipse Award for his coverage of Seattle Slew's Triple Crown.

Spohn Ranch

After a few years of working with the X-Games, and other major competitions such as the Gravity Games and Vans Triple Crown, Aaron and the whole world watched as action sports were catapulted into the mainstream.

Spring Grand Slam

The Triple Crown — involving the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes — is contested only by three-year-olds who race over distances between 1910 metres (Preakness) and 2400 metres (Belmont).

Telly's Pop

In his outstanding two-year-old season, in addition to a win in the Haggin Stakes Telly's Pop won the 1975 Del Mar Futurity at Del Mar Racetrack followed by the Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita Park, and then the California Juvenile Stakes at Bay Meadows Racetrack, all Grade II events that comprised the California Triple Crown for his age group.

Toshiaki Kawada

After Williams lifted the Triple Crown from Misawa, Kawada defeated Williams on October 22, 1994; his title reign lasted one successful defense, as he went to a one-hour draw with Kenta Kobashi in Osaka on January 19; it has been called the greatest one hour match in pro wrestling history by Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer.

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television

In 1985, a group of people wanted to increase the stature of the Triple Crown on television.

VFA-97

After returning to Lemoore, their efforts were recognized with the 2001 Battle “E", the 2001 Captain Michael J. Estocin Award and the Chief of Naval Operations Safety “S”, resulting in the so-called "triple-crown" achievement for the Warhawks.

Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit District 11

Famous alumni include Stephen Mason (guitarist with Jars of Clay), Hall of Fame jockey John L. Rotz (rider of the winners of two Triple Crown races, the 1962 Preakness Stakes on the horse Greek Money, and 1970 Belmont Stakes on the colt, High Echelon), and