the New York Handicap Triple or American Graded Stakes Races for thoroughbred racehorses is run by the New York Racing Association at Belmont Park in Elmont New York. these three races consist ot the Metropolitan Handicap, the Brooklyn Handicap and the Suburban Handicap. the four horses that have won the Handicap Triple Crown are Whisk Broom 2 in 1913, Tom Fool in 1953, Kelso in 1961 and Fit to Fight in 1984.
A horse rider can win the Triple Crown by having their horse win three prestigious horse races: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes in the same year.
affirmed
Affirmed in 1978
Yes, in 1978
No one....It 's a horse race. Only a horse has won the race! And the last horse to win the Triple Crown was Affirmed in 1978. The jockey on Affirmed was Steve Cauthen.
Smarty Jones
Sir Barton
Affirmed, a race horse in 1978.
Secretariat won the triple crown in 1973. He was the 9th horse to do so in 25 years.
Not the US Triple Crown. But he did win the UK Triple Crown.
Omaha ridden by William Saunders in 1935
The first horse to ever win the triple crown was Sir Barton. Sir Barton was born in 1916 at the breeding farm of Madden and Gooch in Kentucky.http://triple-crown-racing.suite101.com/article.cfm/sir_barton_won_first_triple_crown