A complete of 373 3-year-old Thoroughbreds, led by champion 2-year-old male Citizen Bull, have been made eligible to this 12 months’s Triple Crown sequence with a $600 early nomination fee that was due Jan. 27.
This 12 months’s whole represents a 7.8% enhance from final 12 months’s 346 early nominations. A report 69 Japan-based horses, skilled by 33 totally different conditioners, have been nominated, which shattered final 12 months’s report of 47.
Sixty of the nominees have already received stakes races, together with the highest 10 level leaders on the Highway to the Kentucky Derby: Citizen Bull, Velocity King, Coal Battle, Burnham Sq., Disco Time, Captain Prepare dinner, Constructed, Gaming, Getaway Automobile and Jonathan’s Manner. The record additionally consists of Grade 1 winners Chancer McPatrick and East Avenue.
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The nominations function a number of of the game’s prime conditioners, led by Corridor of Fame coach Todd Pletcher, who has 32 horses nominated. Different main trainers embrace Bob Baffert (21), Brad Cox (14), Chad Brown (13) and Kenny McPeek (12).
The Triple Crown will start with the 151st operating of the $5 million Kentucky Derby Introduced by Woodford Reserve Could 3 over 1 ¼ miles at Churchill Downs. The sequence continues with the $2 million Preakness Stakes at 1 3/16 miles Could 17 at Pimlico Race Course, and concludes with the $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course over 1 ¼ miles June 7.
Early Triple Crown Nominees by the Numbers
$3,200,000 – Highest-priced public public sale buy: Barnes (2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale).
$1,421,000 – Highest lifetime earnings: Citizen Bull
268 Kentucky-bred nominees, probably the most of any state or nation. Others: Japan (54), Florida (14), New York (11), Maryland (9), Louisiana (4), Pennsylvania (3), Ontario (2), Virginia (2), California (1), France (1), Iowa (1), Eire (1), Ohio (1) and West Virginia (1).
181 bay-colored horses. Different colours: Darkish bay/brown (89), chestnut (69), grey/roan (30), grey (4).
146 trainers with horses nominated to the Triple Crown.
60 stakes winners nominated.
32 horses nominated from coach Todd Pletcher’s barn, adopted by Bob Baffert (21), Brad Cox (14), Chad Brown (13) and Kenny McPeek (12).
21 horses sired by Into Mischief , probably the most of any stallion. Others: Not This Time (14), Nyquist (13), Structure (11), Curlin (11), Gun Runner (11) and Uncle Mo (11).
20 geldings nominated.
Seven fillies nominated: Magnificence Reigns (coach Invoice Mott), Mistress (Yoshito Yahagi), Necessity (Norm Casse), Promised Gene (Yuki Uehara), Queen’s Chocolat (Koichi Shintani), Velvet Satan (Mike Tomlinson) and Vilja Lied (Masayuki Nishimura).
Three ridglings nominated.
Could 29, 2022 – Newest foal amongst nominees: Gunmetal.
Jan. 8, 2022 – Earliest foal amongst nominees: Promised Gene.
Three-year-olds not nominated throughout the early section can nonetheless be a part of the Triple Crown path by making a late fee of $6,000 by April 7, at www.thetriplecrown.com.
13 horses have swept the Triple Crown: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), Battle Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Rely Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Quotation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978), American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018).