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Article: Street Sense gets chance to prove win wasn't fluke.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2007
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Byline: Dave Joseph
Mar. 17--It has been 133 days since James Tafel's Street Sense awed the racing world with an emphatic 10-length victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs. This afternoon, the colt will be asked to live up to the hype when he returns to the races at Tampa Bay Downs.
It will not be an easy task. Not only will Street Sense be facing six others, including the promising Todd Pletcher-trained Any Given Saturday in the $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby, but the champion colt will be doing it off an extended layoff and under the microscope of critics who believe his victory in the Breeders' Cup was accomplished over a biased ...