Current TC Spacing Dates Back to 1969

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Citation actually won a fourth race in-between the Preakness and Belmont in 1948. I'm sure some of the other pre-1969 winners did something similar. The schedule isn't the issue.

Also ran in the derby trial as a prep for the derby. and I agree that the schedule is no issue. The current schedule immediately had three tc winners in the seventies, along with other close ones that decade and since. Having no tc winner since affirmed isnt due to the schedule.