Triple Crown Draws 375

Breeders Cup Juvenile winner Boston Harbor and Storm Song, winner of the Breeders Cup fillies, head the list of 375 3-year-olds nominated for this year’s $5 million Visa Triple Crown Challenge.

The number of nominees is the highest total since 1992 and the sixth-highest since Triple Crown officials went to a single nomination format for the three famous races in 1986.

Boston Harbor, bred and owned by W.T. Young’s Overbrook Farm and trained by D. Wayne Lukas, has been mentioned already as the favorite in the Triple Crown’s first leg, the 123rd running of the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs in Louisville.

The other two legs are the Preakness Stakes, scheduled for May 17 at Pimlico in Baltimore, and the Belmont Stakes, June 7 at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

Lukas leads the trainer list for most nominations with 23 horses, including Boston Harbor.