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This river city hosts the Kentucky Derby.

What is Louisville?

100
At a mile and a half , this race is the last and the longest of the Triple Crown races.
What is the Belmont Stakes?
100
These flowers are associated with the Preakness Stakes, held at Pimlico Park in Maryland.
What are Black Eyed Susan's?
100

This horse has a chance to capture the Triple Crown with a win in the 2018 Belmont Stakes.

Who is Justify?

100
Exactly one month after the Battle of Gettysburg, this racetrack in New York was born making it the oldest sporting venue of any kind in this country
What is Saratoga Racetrack?
200

Two structures that have come to symbolize the Churchill Downs race track.

What are the twin spires?

200
This Triple Crown race is the shortest of the three.
What is the Preakness Stakes?
200
This Stephen Foster song is played when the horses first step onto the Churchill Downs track before the Kentucky Derby.
What is My Old Kentucky Home?
200
The last horse to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and capture the Triple Crown.
Who is Affirmed?
200

Horse racing's historical popularity with aristocrats and monarchs helped give the sport this nickname.

What is the Sport of Kings?

300

This race track in Lexington, Kentucky plays host to the Blue Grass Stakes, a Derby Prep Race.

What is Keeneland?

300
This jockey is the only one to win the Triple Crown twice, once on Whirlaway in 1941 and on Citation in 1948
Who is Eddie Arcaro?
300
Two structures that have come to symbolize the Churchill Downs race track.
What are the twin spires?
300
The subject of a novel and major 2003 Hollywood movie, this famous horse never won the Derby, Preakness or Belmont, but beat the horse that did in 1938.
Who is Seabiscuit?
300
In the year 648 BC history shows that the first equestrian event involving four horse chariots happened at this venue.
What are the Ancient Greek Olympics?
400

At age 18, this Kentucky native was the last Jockey to win the Triple Crown.

Who is Stevie Cauthen?

400
This horse, who's name starts with an A, finished second to the winning horse Affirmed in each of the three Triple Crown races in 1978, coming closer and closer in each one.
Who is Alydar?
400
Featuring Bourbon, syrup and crushed ice, this is recognized as the signature drink of the Kentucky Derby.
Who is a Mint Julep?
400

Names of two of the three horses that won the Triple Crown in the 1970s.

Who is Secretariat, Seattle Slew, or Affirmed?

400
Although other races were started several years earlier, this is the race with the distinction of being the longest consecutively run element of the Triple Crown.
What is the Kentucky Derby?
500

This race was first run on May 17, 1875.

What is the Kentucky Derby?

500
With a 31 length win in the final leg of the Triple Crown, this famous horse's dominating performance in the Belmont Stakes set a Triple Crown record that still stands today.
Who is Secretariat?
500

This bet is placed on the top three horses in the correct order: win, place, and show.

What is a Trifecta?

500
The term used to describe any horse that can directly trace its heritage to one of these three horses; Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian.
What is a Thoroughbred?
500

This country introduced the tradition of grouping three significant individual horse races for three year olds and creating a Triple Crown. HINT - This is not an American racing innovation .

What is England?

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