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Making the Grade, which will run through the 2020 Triple Crown races, focuses on the winners or top performers of the key races, usually from the previous weekend, who could make an impact on the Triple Crown. We’ll be taking a close look at impressive winners and evaluating their chances to win classic races based upon ability, running style, connections (owner, trainer, jockey), and pedigree.

Nearly five years ago, on Oct. 31, 2015, American Pharoah raced for the last time, winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic by 6½-lengths at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.

“A Triple Crown winner, a Breeders' Cup winner, a horse of a lifetime,” exclaimed NBC Sports’ race caller Larry Collmus.

Each week members of the media around the country vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown and Kentucky Oaks trails in the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll. Find out the latest 2020 top 3-year-old rankings below.

AMERICA'S TOP THOROUGHBREDS as of Aug. 24

Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from the $500,000, Grade 1 TVG Pacific Classic Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar and other key developments this weekend:

America’s Best Racing has put together a slideshow of the 3-year-olds expected to compete in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs.

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