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Article: ZITO GETS HIS TICKET TO KENTUCKY.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 22, 1990
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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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... ... NJ) 06-06-2009 Zito is lurking again ... Edtion: All Editions NEW YORK Overlook Nick Zito in the Belmont Stakes ... love this race." And if Zito cant win, hell be cheering ... get Chocolate Candy to New York. Hollendorfer immediately ...
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