In his hauntingly melodic song, "Hallelujah," Leonard Cohen wrote, "Baby I've been here before. I know this room, I've walked this floor."...
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We won't even begin to express our disappointment and disgust over the scratch of I'll Have Another. All we will do for now is kill the paragraphs already written and leave the leftovers. This is what is left of the Belmont Stakes....
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After 34 years and 11 failures, this is the year the Triple Crown will be conquered...right? It's so close you can taste it. ...
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So, I'll Have Another will gallop up to the Belmont Stakes. Well, that's what we've been told. Officially, that is correct, as there will be nothing on the worktab under the name I'll Have Another....
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A photo gallery of a typical morning with Belmont Stakes contender Union Rags....
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The California Horse Racing Board, in all its divine wisdom, has decided to dredge up a nearly two-year-old carbon dioxide overage on a Doug O'Neill-trained horse and make a ruling on it two weeks before O'Neill will attempt to sweep the Triple Crown with I'll Have Another....
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Animal Kingdom, of course, must be included in all exotic bets. It's just a question who to put with him....
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When Nehro's connections decided to skip the Preakness and wait for the Belmont Stakes (gr. I), the first thought was that the son of Mineshaft --The Administrator, by Afleet was going to be the buzz horse in the Test of the Champion....
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The last pieces of the puzzle in the Triple Crown races are the post positions, and horsemen cannot wait until they can get that out of the way....
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Barry Irwin thinks Mucho Macho Man is the horse to beat....
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In honor of Point Given's induction into the Hall of Fame, the 2001 Belmont Stakes recap....
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As a tribute to Birdstone's remarkable feat of siring two different winners of a Triple Crown race in the same year (the first stallion to do so since Count Fleet in 1951), and from his first crop no less, I am re-printing my 2004 Belmont Stakes recap from the Blood-Horse....
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