BELMONT BUSTS

Twelve 3-year-olds have won the Triple Crown, but 20 more failed in the final leg at the Belmont. How they fared:

2014 — California Chrome, fourth with five furlongs to go ranges up and sets down coming five wide into the stretch, but fails to pick up the pace to finish in a deadheat for fourth with Wicked Strong.

2008 — Big Brown finishes last to Da’ Tara, the longest shot on the board. Big Brown is rank at the start and fails to respond when Kent Desormeaux asks him to run in the last turn, so Desormeaux eases him up.

2004 — Smarty Jones extends his lead approaching the quarter pole and maintains a clear lead inside the furlong marker but weakens in the late stages to finish second, a length behind Birdstone.

2003 — Funny Cide leads to the far turn, relinquishes the lead to Empire Maker at the three-sixteenths pole, then weakens finishing third, five lengths back.

2002 — War Emblem stumbles badly out of the gate, is rank for three-quarters of a mile and takes brief lead nearing the half-mile pole. He remains a factor to the turn before giving way and finishing eighth.

1999 — Charismatic takes the lead briefly at the turn but Lemon Drop Kid and Vision and Verse fly by him on the outside and he finishes third 1½ lengths back.

1998 — Four lengths ahead with an eighth-mile remaining, Real Quiet gets nipped by a nose at the wire by Victory Gallop in a nine-horse field.

1997 — Silver Charm fails to hold off Touch Gold in the final eighth-mile and finishes second, three-quarters of a length back.

1989 — Sunday Silence can’t match Easy Goer in final quarter of a mile and finishes second, eight lengths back. 1987 — Checked sharply on final turn, Alysheba finishes fourth, 14 lengths behind winner Bet Twice.

1981 — Pleasant Colony, never better than third, finishes a little more than 1½ lengths behind Summing. 1979 — The 1-5 favorite, Spectacular Bid leads with a quarter-mile left, but weakens to finish third, 3¼ lengths behind Coastal.

1971 — Canonero II leads 12 rivals for the first mile before finishing fourth, 4¼ lengths behind winner Pass Catcher.

1969 — Majestic Prince closes to second in a six-horse field with an eighth-mile remaining, but he can’t catch Arts And Letters and is beaten by 5¼ lengths.

1968 — Forward Pass leads until eighth-pole, then finishes second by 1¾ lengths to Stage Door Johnny. 1966 — Leading 10 rivals with a quarter-mile remaining, Kauai King fades to fourth, 7 lengths behind winner Amberoid.

1964 — Northern Dancer is second in a nine-horse field with an eighth-mile remaining, but he finishes third 6 lengths behind Quadrangle.

1961 — Carry Back never gets into contention and finishes seventh in a nine-horse field, 13¾ lengths behind winner Sherluck.

1958 — Tim Tam is unable to cut in Cavan’s lead and finishes second by 6 lengths in an eight-horse field. 1944 — Pensive leads with a quarter-mile remaining, but he loses by a half-length to Bounding Home.