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With that, Baffert wiped at his watery eyes and blew his nose. Sentimental? No, actually he's allergic to hay and horses; always has been. That's just one of the anomalies on Baffert's past-performance chart. He grew up on the family ranch in Nogales, Ariz., rode quarter...
Thoroughbred training and quarter-horse training are obviously a breed apart, but the latter requires a horse sense and work ethic that Baffert put to good use once he decided to run with the big boys. His first major success came with Thirty Slews, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint...
J. Anthony Lukas' book on the Boston busing wars, Common Ground, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.
Thanks to Thunder Gulch, which won the Belmont Stakes last week, D. Wayne Lukas became the first horse trainer ever to win five consecutive Triple Crown races. His horses took the Preakness and Belmont last year and this, as well as this year's Kentucky Derby (Thunder Gulch again).
Thunder Gulch, the dimmest star in trainer D. Wayne Lukas' trio of starters, thundered out of a wall of 18 horses to win the 121st running of the Kentucky Derby. --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart