Article by Steve Haskin: In this extract from his book Tales From the Triple Crown, award-winning writer Steve Haskin recalls the extraordinary brouhaha accompanying the French colt’s arrival in Louisville in May 1992 – six months after he had set the racing world alight in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
On a midsummer day at Chicago s Comiskey Park in 1938, a WGN Radio reporter asked an innocuous question to New York Yankees outfielder Jake Powell in a pregame interview: What did
Arcangelo won the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes, making trainer Jena Antonucci the first female to saddle the winner of the Test of the Champion.
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Arazi, winner of the 1991 BC Juvenile, was bred by Ralph Wilson Jr.
In general, American dirt racing is dominated by horses with a high turn of early speed. Relatively few winners come from far back, especially in the most prestigious races. As a result, those who do make a greater impression. Few would forget Secretariat s run from last in the first quarter of the 1973 Kentucky Derby to winning in record time.
Likewise, those of us who were there at the Breeders Cup races at Churchill Downs in 1991 won t forget the Grade 1 Juvenile victory by Arazi (by Blushing Groom). The first trans-Atlantic juvenile champion, Arazi had come into the race with a grand reputation.