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Article: Stateside: Brilliance of Point Given provides answer to the Triple Crown detractors.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2001
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Byline: Dan Farley
EVERY now and then, the US Triple Crown comes under fire from some observers for being simply too difficult to win. The races are too long and too close together for the kind of horses being bred in the US today, goes the argument.
You know the kind of horse we're talking about-those bred for speed, fattened and coddled for the yearling market, then sold for prices just as fat.
Well if there was ever merit in another side of that argument, then it was evidenced in this year's Triple Crown.
Four horses ran in all three events, and they occupied ...