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Looking back at the "heydey" of racing and we have the following horses that ran in all 3 legs of the Triple Crown:
1977: Seattle Slew, Run Dusty Run, Sir Sir
1978: Affirmed, Alydar (5 horse field in the Belmont)
1979: Spectacular Bid, Golden Act, General Assembly, Screen King (only 5 horses ran in the Preakness in 79)
If anything, we are at least getting reasonable sized fields in the TC races post Kentucky Derby nowadays. I couldn't even imagine the outcries in today's world if we would see 5 horse fields in the Preakness and/or Belmont.
Supposedly horses aren't as fit or able to run 12F as they used to be. Then again, the 70s had two renditions of 5 horse fields, two 8 horse fields, and two 9 horse fields. In the 2010's we have had the following field sizes for the Belmont: 12, 12, 11, 14, 11, 8 (Amer Ph), 13, 11.
Last edited by Lemon Drop Husker; 06-11-2017 at 10:31 AM.
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