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written by Jordan Valdina...
...could call it "experimental," and that's probably what Jordan Valdina, writer and producer of "As Breath in the Wind" intended. But you could also call it incoherent, superficial, and condescending. This play is little more than a string of random special effects and gimmicks, held together only by the consistently earnest performances of the cast...
...three years, he splurged $360,000 for yearlings, spent a lot more on such older nags as Valdina Orphan ($100,000), Attention ($55,000) and Rounders ($50,000). His prize bust was the $66,000 spent for Pericles as a yearling in 1943. Pericles' hooves proved too brittle to carry his outsized weight well; he has never run a race...
...give up his faith in Alsab, last year's wonderhorse-even after he finished third in Florida's Flamingo and fifth in its Widener; even after he was licked twice within a week at Havre de Grace by commonplace Colchis; even after he was humbled by Valdina Orphan in the Derby Trial and by Shut Out in the great Derby itself, the race for which Swenke had pointed since the beginning of the year...
Last week scrawny little Alsab lined up with Shut Out, Valdina Orphan, Colchis and six other rivals for the $75,000 Preakness, second of the season's rich classics for three-year-olds. The Ol' Sarge was still convinced that his game little colt, even after eight straight defeats, was the best of the lot. Others among the 42,000 who crammed the ancient Pimlico race track thought so too, for Alsab went to the post the favorite...