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...Emblem now heads for the Belmont Stakes this week, trying to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. It's a great script, at least to anyone who isn't in the horse-racing game. Back at the barn, though, Baffert is getting a whiff of some sour oats from other trainers. The notion is that he "bought" the Derby for nearly $1 million, using his Middle Eastern ATM to pry War Emblem loose from a struggling Chicago businessman, since Reineman's company, Crown Steel Sales, was losing money. This, in a sport...
...Emblem is the most unlikely Triple Crown hopeful since Seattle Slew in 1977. Reineman couldn't get the $20,000 he asked for the horse as a yearling, so War Emblem went to work at places like Sportsman's Park in Illinois, a course known as a bullring. It's a short track with tight turns and bumper car tactics that tend to limit long-striding horses like War Emblem. The horse did well enough so that over the winter Reineman reportedly tried to dump him for $300,000 but again found no takers. Then War Emblem won the Illinois...
...Crimson dashed through the final nine contests of its 13-game win streak, with Cserny scoring in double-digits in all but two, on the way to the Ivy crown and the national circuit...
...seemingly annual post-exam slide began with a lopsided 5-3 loss at Cornell that was not nearly as close as the score indicated. Five losses and one last-place Beanpot finish later, the Crimson had lost any shot at the regular season crown...
Cornell’s struggles allowed Harvard to become the quickest team in school history to clinch a share of the Ivy title. The Crimson claimed the outright crown with a victory over Yale and posted comfortable wins over Brown and Dartmouth to close out its Ivy season...