Whirlaway (April 2, 1938-April 61953) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse. A chestnut colt, he was sired by "Blenheim II," out of the dam "Dustwhirl" at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Trained by Ben A. Jones and ridden by Eddie Arcaro, he won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1941 by capturing the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. He also won the Lawrence Realization Stakes and the Travers Stakes that year. He was voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year for 1941 and repeated as Horse of the Year in 1942. Whirlaway, ridden by George Woolf, who won the Pimlico Special in 1938 on Seabiscuit, 1940 on Challedon, and 1942 on Whirlaway, rode the 1941 Triple Crown winner at a leisurely pace during the 1942 Special in a walkover. No opponent had been found to challenge the great horse for the race. Arcaro, who successfully rode Whirlaway in all his 3-year-old victories, missed the 1942 season