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FOUR WHEELS, FOUR HOOVES; For Tafel Racing, it's in the blood.(Motorsports)
Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH
Two races, held on the same day, were only 118 miles away from each other, but the two worlds they represented could not have been much farther apart.
You know about the first race: the 55th Annual 12 Hours of Sebring ("Deceptive Result,'' AW, March 26), perhaps America's most important endurance race, leading up to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, the world's most important endurance race.
Sebring was about halfway through when the second race started: the Tampa Bay Derby, a $300,000-purse horse race at Tampa Bay Downs. The derby is a critical preliminary for the most important horse race, the Kentucky Derby in May.
The connection: the Tafel family. Street Sense-at present the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby-won Tampa Bay. James Tafel Sr., 83, who retired as CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Technical Publishing, owns the horse.
At Sebring, two cars fielded by a ...
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- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) May 5, 2007 700+ words
...win the 133rd Kentucky Derby. Borel recalled...s homebred Street Sense, Borel blasted...no match for Street Sense, who galloped...the wire at the Kentucky Derby in front...whether he thought Street Sense could become...
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- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) May 17, 2007 700+ words
...Carl Nafzger, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, got to town just ahead...knock us off." Last night, Street Sense was established as the 7...place Derby finishers. Street Sense and Hard Spun swapped their...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire May 15, 2007 700+ words
...James Tafel's Street Sense, winner of the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum...the work by the Kentucky Derby winner via special...satellite uplink of the Street Sense work are: Satellite...greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously...
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- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) July 27, 2007 700+ words
...SPRINGS -- It looks like Street Sense is a go for the Jim...after watching the Kentucky Derby winner work four furlongs...Nafzger doesn't want Street Sense to run in the goo...dream matchup to see Street Sense and Preakness winner...
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- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) May 18, 2007 700+ words
...immune system. Street Sense, the 3-year...triumph in the Kentucky Derby, fits the mold...designed to take Street Sense through the Triple...Saratoga.]" Street Sense, Nafzger said...winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1990, second...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire May 6, 2007 700+ words
...Highest Kentucky Derby Day Crowd Watches Favorite Street Sense Claim the...Tafel's Street Sense power home...Downs' 133rd Kentucky Derby Presented...connections of Street Sense certainly made Kentucky Derby 133 one to...
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- Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England) May 26, 2009 700+ words
...in America. Winner of the Kentucky Derby on Mine That Bird, winner...Cup, won the Juvenile on Street Sense, for trainer Carl Nafzger...leading rider and, when Street Sense won the 2007 Kentucky Derby, Borel threw his arms in...
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- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) May 2, 2007 700+ words
...and helped break Kentucky Derby favorites Street Sense and Nobiz Like...This is where 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled...wind up working a Street Sense or a Nobiz Like...which bred `56 Kentucky Derby winner Needles...
Source: HighBeam Research, FOUR WHEELS, FOUR HOOVES; For Tafel Racing, it's in the...