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Article: Triple Crown results make field a three-for-all
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 10, 1996
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BELMONT, N.Y. -- The Triple Crown, three demanding races run
within the space of five weeks, is designed to point out the top
3-year-old in training. All the Triple Crown pointed out this year
is that there is no top 3-year-old in training. Not now, anyway.
Grindstone, now retired, won the Kentucky Derby; Louis Quatorze
won the Preakness and Editor's Note won the Belmont. The three-way
split left the division fractured.
But fear not. We still have the Travers, to be run Aug. 24 at
Saratoga. Champions are made in the fall and the Travers may be the
springboard for the eventual champion. Maria's Mon, last year's
2-year-old champ who has been all but forgotten since he injured a
leg last fall, ...