Affirmed and Alydar
Timothy T. Capps

Now in Paperback!

Pub Date: April 2007. During the Triple Crown season of 1978, two chestnut colts captured the public’s imagination like no rivals before or since. Affirmed and Alydar battled head to head in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes. Affirmed claimed the Triple Crown, but Alydar tested him to the limits each time. Indeed, many racing historians consider their Belmont Stakes to be the greatest race of the 20th century.

To tell one’s story is to tell the other’s, so closely intertwined are lives of Affirmed and Alydar. Author Tim Capps, who witnessed many of the Affirmed-Alydar races, chronicles their early years, first encounters, and epic clashes. He also tells the stories of the people who raised, trained, and rode these titans. Affirmed was bred in Florida by financier Louis Wolfson while Alydar entered life on the historic grounds of Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.

Timothy T. Capps lives in Columbia, Maryland, near Baltimore. He is the author of two other Thoroughbred Legends books, Spectacular Bid and Secretariat.

Softcover
6 x 8
240 pages
16-page b&w photo well
Product #B11-2115
List Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58150-154-4