Triple Crown facts
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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times every day and his owners charge a $200,000 fee per impregnation, generating about $30,000,000 a year annually.
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Former Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times a day everyday and his owners charge a fee of $200,00. This leads to an annual revenue of about $30,000,000.
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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah travels on a custom Boeing 727 known as "Air Horse One" where the seats have been replaced with stable stalls and hay
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The Triple Crown of Motorsports, defined as winning the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Monaco Grand Prix, has only been completed by one driver ever: Graham Hill.
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Between 1972 and 1996, every winner of the Kentucky Derby, and most winners of the the Triple Crown, descended from a single stud named "Bonnie Scotland". Notable progeny include Man-O-War, Seabiscuit, War Admiral, Secretariat, California Chrome and, most recently, Justify.
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Graham Hill is the only racecar driver to have won the Triple Crown of Motorsport, consisting of the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 hours of Le Mans.
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A thoroughbred named Sham, considered one of the fastest race horses of the 20th century, didn't win a single leg of the 1973 Triple Crown because he was beat each time by his half-cousin, Secretariat
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Upon winning the Triple Crown in 1973, Secretariat's semen had an estimated dollar value that was five-thousand times more per ounce than platinum.
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Saratoga Springs Race Course is called the "Graveyard of Champions" because it has been the home of defeats of famous horses such as Man o' War and triple crown winners like Secretariat, and most recently, American Pharaoh.
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The stud fee for 2015 Triple Crown winner, American Pharoah, is $200,000 per foal. He has done so over 100 times, generating over $20,000,000 in revenue.
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Secretariat was so dominant that his rival Sham would most likely have also won the triple crown himself. Yet he never finished those races within 2.5 lengths of Big Red.
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Only 23 people have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting", 14 women and 9 men. This means that they have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting category.
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Although the Triple Crown winning horse American Pharoah earned just over $8M racing, he's expected to earn over 5X that amount this year alone just for having sex. He earns $200K for each session that produces viable offspring, and can mate up to 3 times a day during mating season.
A "ridgling" is a male animal with an undescended testicle (Triple Crown winner American Pharoah is such an animal). - source
Reed Gjonnes, who by age 13 completed the Triple Crown of Hiking: The Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, and Continental Divide Trail. Total distance is over 7,900 miles with 1,000,000+ ft elevation gain. - source
Geoffrey Rush, the actor who played Barbarossa in Pirates of the Caribbean, is the youngest actor to earn the "Triple Crown in Acting".
95% of modern Thoroughbred horses, including potential Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah, can trace their Y chromosome back to a single 18th Century sire. - source
When was the last triple crown winner?
The first person to complete the 7900-mile "Triple Crown of Hiking" - the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail - was teenager Eric Ryback.
How many triple crown winners?
Canadian millionaire JKL Ross owned the 1st Triple Crown Winner, twice broke the record for largest Tuna caught by rod & reel, bought 3 ships for the Navy in WW1, commanded 1, gave millions to hospitals and veterans' families, went bankrupt and spent his final years as Jamaica's deputy Governor
The "King/Queen of Mountains" designation for mountainous stages in professional cycling has never had a Triple Crown winner.
