New York Racing Association Mickey and Karen L. Taylor, Tayhill Stable, Jim Hill, etc." 1978: Ridden by Steve Cauthen, Affirmed became the 11th horse to win the Triple Crown in storybook fashion. In all three Triple Crown races, he defeated Alydar, ridden by Jorge Velasquez, by a nose in one of racing’s epic rivalries. Two months later in the Travers, Affirmed finished first but is placed second for interfering with Alydar, who was declared the winner. Affirmed and Alydar would race 10 times in their careers, with Affirmed winning seven times. Cauthen was 18 when he captured the Triple Crown, the youngest jockey in
Triple Crown of Hiking when he was 6 in 2014 and began the Continental Divide Trail in the spring 2016 and completed it in September 2017 when he was 9. Elsye Walker, known as chardonnay on the trail, is the first black woman to hike all three trails to complete the triple crown. In 2015 when she thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail in 2016/2018, and in 2017 she thru-hiked Continental Divide Trail . The first person to walk the Triple Crown back-to-back was Brian Robinson, who completed the Triple Crown in 2001. Triple Crown of Hiking The Triple Crown of Hiking