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Espinoza aims to join select company.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ They are the 10 horsemen of the Triple Crown.
Their names are Loftus, Sande, Saunders, Kurtsinger, Arcaro, Longden, Mehrtens, Turcotte, Cruguet and Cauthen.
They have refused entry into their small fraternity for the past 24 years.
No horse, and thus no jockey, has won the Triple Crown since 1978, when Steve ``The Kid'' Cauthen guided Affirmed through a sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
Now comes Victor Espinoza, a former Mexico City bus driver who needs only to steer War Emblem to victory in Saturday's Belmont to complete the long-awaited sweep and join racing's elite.
``I'm not nervous at all,'' said Espinoza, 30, who became the first Mexican-born jockey to win a Triple Crown race when he won the Kentucky Derby aboard War Emblem on May 4.
It was Espinoza who positioned War Emblem on the lead in the Derby, nursed him along in comfortable fractions, then hit the gas in the deep stretch to pull away and win by four lengths.
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