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Elliot had won 3,300 races and was the son of jockey [3] Dennis Elliott, Smarty Jones won the six-furlong.75 miles (1.21 km) race by 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths. Two weeks later, he won the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes by 15 lengths, earning the best speed figure of his generation and among the best of any Derby winner as a 2 year old.
Affirmed (February 21, 1975 – January 12, 2001) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the eleventh winner of the American Triple Crown.Affirmed was well known for his famous rivalry with Alydar, whom he met ten times, including Alydar coming second in each of the three 1978 Triple Crown races.
Affirmed made it to the winner's circle in the 1978 Kentucky Derby, and would go on to win the Triple Crown. Just one year later, Affirmed pulled off the sweep in 1978.
John Leuzzi, USA TODAY NETWORK. May 2, 2024 at 11:59 AM ... Last horse to win Triple Crown. ... between 1978 winner Affirmed and 2015 winner American Pharoah. The second-longest drought was 25 ...
Arcangelo holds on in the stretch to win the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes, making Jena Antonucci the first woman to train a Triple Crown race winner.
He won the Triple Crown in a wire-to-wire victory at the 2015 Belmont Stakes, becoming the first American Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 and the 12th in history. His winning time was the second-fastest for a Triple Crown winner. He next shipped to Monmouth Park and easily won the Haskell Invitational on August 2. [6]
In 1977, Seattle Slew became the first horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated. Affirmed was the last winner of the Triple Crown in the 20th century, taking the Belmont Stakes in 2:26 4/5 on June 10, 1978. Ridden by eighteen-year-old Steve Cauthen, Affirmed defeated rival Alydar with Jorge Velásquez in the saddle.