It's Affirmed ...



On this date in nineteen seventy-eight

Affirmed ... bolted right out of the gate

Spurred on by jockey Steve Cauthen

Crossing that finish line - so important



For it gave Affirmed the Triple Crown

Earning him a high place of reknown

For so few horses can win all three races*

And those who do provide many smiling faces

  

- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

10:30pm Thurs. June 10th, 1999



*Triple Crown



Belmont Stakes 1.5 miles 3-year-olds

begun 1867

The Preakness 1.4 miles 3-year-olds

begun 1873

Kentucky Derby 1.25 miles 3-year-olds

begun 1875