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SARATOGA SPRINGS We know how good Essential Quality is.
This weekend at Saratoga Race Course provides an opportunity to see how good some of the other 3-year-old colts are, including several who are on the rise after having started their racing careers on the late side.
That opportunity comes in the form of two nine-furlong races that should serve as steppingstones to the Aug. 28 Travers, Friday’s Curlin and Saturday’s Grade II Jim Dandy, for which the 2-year-old male champion Essential Quality is the 1-2 morning-line favorite.
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OPINION | REX NELSON: The Cella way
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Rex Nelson
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I fell in love with thoroughbred racing at a young age. By my freshman year in college, I was using my job as sports editor of the daily newspaper in Arkadelphia as an excuse to drive to Hot Springs each day during the Oaklawn race meet. In 1981, I covered the Kentucky Derby for the first time. I ve been to eight of those spectacles.
In 1982, at age 22, I covered every day of the race meet for the Arkansas Democrat. The sport of kings has been part of my life for decades. One of the pleasures of being an Oaklawn regular was getting to know the late Charles J. Cella, the track s owner. Newspaper writers are attracted to colorful characters, and they didn t come much more colorful than the man associates referred to simply as CJC.