<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Significant horses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> War Emblem, Peace Rules, Behaving Badly, California Chrome, Congaree Declan's Moon, The Tin Man, American Pharoah, Bob and John, Secret Circle, Take Charge Brandi, Stellar Wind, Gormley, Bolt d'Oro </Td> </Tr> <P> Victor Espinoza (born May 23, 1972) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the Triple Crown in 2015 on American Pharoah . He began riding in his native Mexico and went on to compete at racetracks in California . He has won the Kentucky Derby three times, riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharoah in 2015 . He also won the Preakness Stakes three times, in those same years and with the same horses . He was the first jockey in history to enter the Belmont Stakes with a third opportunity to win the Triple Crown, finally winning the elusive honor in 2015--becoming the oldest jockey and first Hispanic jockey to win the award . </P> <P> Espinoza was born on a dairy farm in Hidalgo, Mexico, the eleventh of twelve children . He and his brother Jose L. Espinoza, his senior by three years, rode horses on the farm; when he was 15 he left home and traveled to Cancún to assist his brother as a Quarter Horse trainer . He paid for jockey school by driving a bus in Mexico City at age 17 . Within a few years, Espinoza was racing Thoroughbreds at Mexico City's track, Hipódromo de las Américas . </P>

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