Assume that F is an algebraically closed field with characteristic zero. The universal Racah algebra ℜ is a unital associative F-algebra generated by A, B, C, D and the relations state that [A, B] = [B, C] = [C, A] = 2D and each of Let V denote a finite-dimensional irreducible H-module. In this paper we show that A, B, C are diagonalizable on V if and only if A, B, C act as Leonard triples on all composition factors of the ℜ-module V .