most recent triple crown winner
Sandy Koufax was the most recent to capture three Triple Crowns, winning his three within four seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1963, 1965â1966); all of Koufax's crowns were Major League crowns (meaning he led both leagues in all three categories), the most for any player.
Triple Crown Winners. Past winners of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes. American Pharoah 2015. In the 37th year since Affirmed swept the classics in 1978, Zayat Stables' American Pharoah toyed with the field of seven other horses to win the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes (gr. I).