Turkey
In the Turkish, the three races that compose the Triple Crown are:
- 1000&2000 Guineas (1,600 m)
- Turkish Derby Stakes (2,400 m)
- Ankara Stakes (2,800 m)
Three old horses are eligible for the Turkish Triple Crown.
Champions of the Turkish Triple Crown are:
- 1970 Sadettin (Caerlaverock – Zeynep, by Ugur)
- 1971 Minimo (Cihangir – Mighty Mo, by Big Game(GB))
- 1973 Karayel (Prince Tudor – Linda, by Cihangir)
- 1983 Seren.1 (Karayel – Karanara, by Allenheads)
- 1985 Ugurtay (Tunkut – Nosana, by Kythnos)
- 1986 Hafız (Royal Shiraz – Linda, by Cihangir)
- 1996 Bold Pilot (Persian Bold – Rosa Palumba, by Imperial Fling)
- 2001 Grand Ekinoks (Barnato – Violent Girl, by Aristocrat)
Read more about this topic: Triple Crown Of Thoroughbred Racing
Famous quotes containing the word turkey:
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)