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Article: DREAMING BIG; Eyes on the prize: Richard Dutrow Jr watches Big Brown (top) following yesterdays morning workout at Belmont. The colt, broken in by Meathman Eddie Woods (above), is gunning for the Triple Crown after winning the Kentucky Derby (right) with Kent Desormeaux aboard before taking the Preakness Stakes last month (left).
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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Byline: JOE CALLAGHAN
FROM the blue collar punters in the enclosures to the suits in thepremium level leather seats, the massively overwhelming majority of BelmontPark patrons tonight will scream him on.
For thirty long, cheerless years the thirst of American race fans has goneunquenched. Their search for a new thoroughbred titana 12th Triple Crown winner has proved fruitless.
Three decades since Affirmed roared home in 1978 they have watched throughtheir fingers as seemingly great horses balked at the opportunity to be deignedimmortalSunday Silence in 1989, Real Quiet in 98 and Smarty Jones in 2004 among theinfamous on the list.
Now ...