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Article: LUKAS COMPLETES A BELMONT TRIPLE : EDITOR'S NOTE HOLDS OFF SKIP AWAY, WINS BY LENGTH.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 9, 1996
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Byline: Ed Schuyler Jr. Associated Press
After a one-race absence from the winner's circle in Triple Crown races, D. Wayne Lukas returned Saturday in the Belmont Stakes - with a colt who had lost his nine previous starts.
Editor's Note took the lead from Skip Away with about 3/16ths of a mile to go, gave it back almost immediately, then regained it to win by a length.
While Lukas and owner W.T. Young, who combined to win the Kentucky Derby with Grindstone, celebrated the victory, trainer Bob Baffert watched favored Cavonnier leave the track in a horse ambulance because of a bowed tendon in his right front leg.
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