Affirmed

Affirmed
Affirmed at Spendthrift Farm in 1981
SireExclusive Native
GrandsireRaise a Native
DamWon't Tell You
DamsireCrafty Admiral
SexStallion
Foaled1975
DiedJanuary 12, 2001(2001-01-12) (aged 25)[a]
CountryUnited States
ColorChestnut
BreederHarbor View Farm
OwnerHarbor View Farm. Colors: Flamingo, white bars on black sleeves, black cap
TrainerLaz Barrera
Record29: 22–5–1
Earnings$2,393,818[1]
Major wins
Youthful Stakes (1977)
Hollywood Juvenile Championship (1977)
Sanford Stakes (1977)
Hopeful Stakes (1977)
Futurity Stakes (1977)
Laurel Futurity (1977)
San Felipe Stakes (1978)
Santa Anita Derby (1978)
Hollywood Derby (1978)
Jim Dandy Stakes (1978)
Strub Stakes (1979)
Santa Anita Handicap (1979)
Californian Stakes (1979)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1979)
Woodward Stakes (1979)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1979)

Triple Crown race wins:
Kentucky Derby (1978)
Preakness Stakes (1978)
Belmont Stakes (1978)

Awards
11th U.S. Triple Crown Champion (1978)
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1977)
American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (1978)
American Champion Older Male Horse (1979)
American Horse of the Year (1978, 1979)
Honors
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1980)
#12 – Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Affirmed Handicap at Hollywood Park
Affirmed Stakes at Calder Race Course
Affirmed Street in Napa, California

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. After Affirmed won the Triple Crown, there was a 37-year wait until American Pharoah swept the series in 2015.

Affirmed won fourteen Grade One stakes races over his career and was a champion each of the three years he raced. At age two in 1977, he was named the champion two-year-old after winning the Hollywood Juvenile Championship, Sanford, Hopeful, Belmont Futurity and Laurel Futurity. At age three, he was named "Horse of the Year" for winning the Triple Crown and other major stakes races such as the Santa Anita Derby, Hollywood Derby and Jim Dandy Stakes. He repeated as Horse of the Year at age four after winning the final seven races in his career, all but one of which was a Grade I stakes race. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980. On the Blood-Horse magazine list of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, he was ranked twelfth.


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  1. ^ "Horse Profile – Affirmed". Equibase. Retrieved 28 July 2016.