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Article: Barbaro's owners win Secretariat with Showing Up.(Sports)

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August 13, 2006
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Byline: John Leusch Daily Herald Sports Writer

Showing Up was showing off again at Arlington Park.

The 3-year-old son of Strategic Mission showed up in the winner's circle for the fifth time in six career starts by winning the $400,000 Grade I Secretariat Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths Saturday over Irish-bred Ivan Denisovich.

Showing Up's only loss came two starts back, when he lost in the Kentucky Derby.

Everyone remembers who won that race.

But not everyone knows Barbaro's owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, also own Showing Up.

Saturday's Grade I victory gave them some joy after a tough summer with their rehabbing Barbaro, who suffered a life- threatening ...

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