Miguel Cabrera has become the 28th major league player to hit 500 home runs. He reached the milestone in the sixth inning of the Detroit Tigers' game at Toronto.
A 14-year-old California boy has become the youngest person to swim the entire 21.3-mile length of Lake Tahoe and complete the alpine lake’s Triple Crown.
Medina Spirit is set to run in the Preakness on Saturday to go for the second leg of the Triple Crown, as long as the Kentucky Derby winner passes a series of additional drug tests.
The fastest two minutes in sports will also be the quietest in Kentucky Derby history. Churchill Downs will not have 23,000 physically distanced, masked fans at Saturday’s race.
Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners, 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs.
Postponing the Kentucky Derby was a jarring move for Louisville, who hosts horse racing’s marquee event in May. Now the Triple Crown’s first leg to Labor Day weekend.
I’ll Have Another will not run at the 144th Belmont Stakes on Saturday. The horse, who was vying to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, was ruled out by his trainer Doug O’Neill, who spoke about the matter on ‘The Dan Patrick Show’ on radio Friday morning.
I’ll Have Another won the 137th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimilico Race Track in Baltimore on Saturday to become the first horse since 2008 to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown.