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Article: Nuit St. Georges decent long shot
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 8, 1990
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I'm sure Nuit St. Georges didn't have any of that fine burgundy
from France in his system when he won the $100,000 Rebel Stakes at
Oaklawn last week, but he certainly ran like it to become a fair long
shot for the Kentucky Derby May 5.
His sportswoman owner, likeable Photini Jaffe of Oak Brook, did
sip some of that Nuit St. Georges before and after the big upset for
her homebred colt because she gets so nervous when one of her babies
run.
"I didn't sleep the night before the big race," Jaffe said, "and
I couldn't sleep after his big upset ($63.80 payoff) of several
prospects for the $500,000 Arkansas Derby April 21 and the Kentucky
Derby. This was my greatest victory since I entered ...