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Hollywood Can't Diminish War Admiral's Triple Crown Achievement

Winning the Triple Crown will assuredly bring everlasting fame to a champion Thoroughbred.

Bobby Ussery won the 1967 Kentucky Derby aboard 30-1 longshot Proud Clarion for owner Darby Dan Farm and trainer Loyd Gentry.

Ussery’s Alley and the Hall of Fame Career of Bobby Ussery

Give famous jockeys enough time to ride enough horses, and they’ll inevitably become linked with one particularly memorable champion. Ron Turcotte had Secretariat. Eddie Arcaro had Citation. Earl Sande had Gallant Fox, and more recently, Calvin Borel had Rachel Alexandra.

Serena’s Song: In a Class All By Herself

There was a time in her career when Serena’s Song wasn’t even the best filly among the galaxy of stars in trainer D. Wayne Lukas’ barn.

But as fate would have it, much would change after Serena’s Song lost by a bob of the head to stablemate Flanders at the end of their classic duel in the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Flanders would be named the year’s champion 2-year-old filly but a fractured leg ended her career and Serena’s Song filled the void in a spectacular manner.

Best Pal: The People’s Horse

Best Pal never stormed home to win a Triple Crown race or the Breeders’ Cup Classic, yet the hard-knocking bay gelding won the hearts of thousands of racing fans nationwide, and particularly in his native Southern California.

He was a throwback. The classy California-bred started 47 times, won 17 graded stakes on both dirt and turf, and earned in excess of $5.6 million from age 2 to 7.

Paul Mellon, pictured leading Fit to Fight, was well known for his philanthropy as well as his Thoroughbreds.

Paul Mellon: Pillar of the Turf

Paul Mellon was racing’s Renaissance man. Co-heir of the enormous Mellon Bank fortune, he turned in his banker's suit for life as a patrician collector of impressionist art, philanthropist, and racing impresario.

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