American Classic Race wins:Preakness Stakes (1940)Belmont Stakes (1940)Bimelech (February 27, 1937 – 1966) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse who won two Triple Crown races and was a Champion at both age two and three.

Bimelech was foaled at Colonel E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.

Colonel Bradley named this latest La Troienne foal after a friend, John Harris, who went by the nickname Abimelech.

He was also the Experimental Free Handicap Highweight at 130 pounds, a prodigious weight for a young horse.

In his first race as a three-year-old, Bimelech took the Blue Grass Stakes by two and a half lengths.

He then won the Derby Trial Stakes, beating a colt from Milky Way Farm Stable called Gallahadion.

A syndicate (Greentree Stud, King Ranch, and Ogden Phipps) bought Bimelech.

In the Blood-Horse magazine List of Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, Bimelech was ranked number 84.