While Alton welcomes visitors year-round, spring offers that sweet spot of pleasant temperatures, blooming landscapes, and fewer tourists than the peak summer season. April and May typically provide ...

There will be no horse racing Triple Crown this year. Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not compete in the Preakness Stakes. Mike Rogers, the executive vice president of 1/ST Racing ...

That was primarily because no one swept the Triple Crown between Affirmed in 1978 and American Pharoah in 2015, a 37-year drought that made industry stakeholders question tradition versus modern ...

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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not run in the Preakness Stakes, officials announced Tuesday, meaning there won't be a Triple Crown champion ... to the Belmont.” No decision has been ...

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not run in the Preakness Stakes, officials announced Tuesday, meaning there won’t be a Triple Crown champion for a seventh consecutive year. “We received ...

A horse must win all three races to achieve the Triple Crown. June 9, 2018 – Justify, ridden by Mike Smith, wins the 150th Belmont Stakes. Justify becomes the 13th horse to achieve the Triple Crown.