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Article: WAR EMBLEM CARRIES WEIGHT OF RACING WORLD TODAY.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 8, 2002
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Byline: LARRY LEE PALMERCOLUMNIST
NEW YORK -- The hour is at hand. Lines are drawn in the sandy composite of the Belmont oval. Today, 11 horses will enter the starter's gate for the 134th running of the Belmont Stakes. War Emblem, the black stallion with warp speed and thus far unbridled abilities, will attempt to become just the 12th thoroughbred in American racing's storied history to win the Triple Crown.
He is carrying on his back the hopes and dreams of an entire racing industry.
America needs an equine champion after 24 years without a Triple Crown winner. Only the 25 years that separated Citation's conquest in 1948 from the ...