May 19, 2013

An Air Of Immortality

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  Can someone explain to me the qualifications for immortality? Earlier this week on a drive to work, I was flipping through some of the lesser sports stations on XM Radio and came across a show called “Down The Stretch,” a horse racing show. Normally, I would have skipped by this show in record time, [...]

Horse Racing: Triple Crown bids often come undone in Belmont

(PhatzRadio / AP Racing Writer) —- A nose. That’s all that separated Real Quiet from racing immortality. He was beaten by the smallest of margins in the 1998 Belmont Stakes, the longest and toughest leg of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. Affirmed was the last to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont, 34 years ago. [...]