Article: ZITO GETS HIS TICKET TO KENTUCKY.(Sports)

Byline: Matt Graves

This is the kind of story that makes horse racing unlike any other sport.

Sure, racing is about horses. But it's more about people sometimes. People like trainer Nick Zito.

Here's a guy who's been knocking around the backstretch at Belmont and Aqueduct for 25 years waiting for the right horse to come along. Saturday, that horse arrived.

Thirty Six Red, a colt who hadn't won a race of any kind until his seventh start, upset 3-5 favorite Champagneforashley Saturday in the $500,000 Wood Memorial - earning himself and Zito a ticket to the stakes barn at Churchill Downs.

Zito, whose best horses have usually run ...

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