Welcome to 2025 Triple Crown Prospect Profiles where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail.
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1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy: Destined for Greatness
A.P. Indy was seemingly born to greatness. He was sired by Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner. His successful dam (mother), Weekend Surprise, was no surprise because she was sired by Secretariat, another Triple Crown champion. Ambitious owners will pay massive sums for such regal bloodlines, so it was no shock that Japanese owner Tomonori Tsurumaki went to $2.9 million before the auctioneer’s hammer fell at Keeneland’s July yearling sale in 1990.
Horse racing community rocked by tragic sudden passing of trainer after her life support was turned off
Kelly, the partner of Australian horse trainer Tony Haydon, suffered a heart attack and a seizure at the couple's Queensland property in Gympie on May 12.
Belmont Winner Rags to Riches in League of Her Own
Todd Pletcher has won more than 5,850 races in his extraordinary training career. One stands out above the rest. That would be the 2007 Belmont Stakes, when big-hearted Rags to Riches became only the third filly to win the famed “Test of the Champion” and the first since Tanya in 1905.
