Here was a pretty good 3-year-old who almost pulled the sweep off:
* In 1931, Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby by 4 lengths in the final time of 2:01 4/5.
By comparison, the 2010 and 2011 Breeders Cup Classic were both run at Churchill Downs and went in slower times of 2:02 1/5th (Blame VS Zenyatta year) and 2:04.27 (Drosselmeyer year) I'll Have Another's Derby win was 2:01 4/5ths over a souped up track.
* In 1931, Twenty Grand won the Belmont by 10 lengths in the time of 2:29 3/5ths.
The 2011 Belmont was run in 2:30.88 and the 2010 Belmont was run in 2:31.57
His Travers win was only 2:04 3/5th. The last two Travers have been run in 2:03.03 and 2:03.28. However, he did come back two weeks later and beat Hall of Famer Sun Beau by 10 lengths. The week after that he won the Lawrence Realization at 13 furlongs, and a week after that won the Jockey Club Gold Cup at 2 miles.