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Recent Examples of triple crownOnly ten pairs of men—plus Alex Honnold alone—have completed the Triple Crown in the 24 years since Dean Potter and Timmy O’Neill first established it.—Sam MacIlwaine, Outside Online, 16 June 2025 Affirmed edges Alydar for the third time. 1989 — Wayne Gretzky of the Kings is named the NHL’s MVP, winning the Hart Trophy for a record ninth time.
1995 — Trainer D. Wayne Lukas wins a record five straight Triple Crown races as Thunder Gulch takes the Belmont Stakes.—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025 There have only been a handful of horses to win the Triple Crown.—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025 The Belmont traditionally garners the lower ratings of the Triple Crown races so long as a horse is not in the running for the esteemed treble.—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 10 June 2025 Justify becomes the thirteenth Triple Crown winner and the first since American Pharoah in 2015.—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025 Traditionally held in late June, this Grade 3 event has long served as a second-chance spotlight for three-year-olds who may have missed or underperformed in the Triple Crown trail.—Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Sure, the Red Sox paid Chris Sale $16 million last season to win the NL Pitching Triple Crown for Atlanta.—Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025 Journalism was the only horse to run in all three Triple Crown races.—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
On Saturday, Lockwood went 2-for-2 with a double, a triple, a sacrifice and two runs scored in the Wildcats’ 4-1 win against McHenry in the 4A state championship game in Joliet.
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Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
The left-hander entered the game with 1.43 ERA, the best of any starter in baseball, but that didn’t matter much after Cody Bellinger led the second inning off with his third triple of the year.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2025
This triad of capabilities allows AI PCs to handle edge AI applications with efficiency.
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Ajith Sankaran,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
To avoid the looming launcher cliff in the crucial sea component of its nuclear triad, however, the United States must build a larger number of Columbia-class submarines in the 2040s and beyond—at least 14, and perhaps more, to hedge against the further growth of adversaries’ arsenals.
Anthony is part of a triumvirate of baubles the Red Sox have dangled before their fan base for several seasons.
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Bill Speros,
Boston Herald,
12 June 2025
Before the fourth quarter, Cleveland had a triumvirate of ballhandlers who just carved their way through the defense, ensuring every half-court possession had movement and flow.
Speaking of what’s kosher to talk about in regards to 28 Years Later…: There’s had been rumors that Cillian Murphy’s Jim would make an appearance in this new film, thus connecting this final trilogy entry to its ground-zero starting point.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
With death also comes life, and humanity is the throughline of the planned trilogy, set to continue with the forthcoming sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
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