SET your alarms now – you need to be in front of a television at 11.45pm next Saturday, June 6th. That’s when American Pharoah will aim to do what no three-year-old thoroughbred has done since 1978 by winning the Belmont Stakes and completing the US Triple Crown.

The Triple Crown has been completed just 11 times in almost 100 years. Here we look back at the last five horses to achieve the feat.