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Curlin's trainer savors victory: Preakness winner, Hard Spun likely headed to Belmont.
Byline: Sandra McKee
May 21--The sun had barely put a streak into the night sky yesterday morning, when trainer Steve Asmussen strolled into the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course.
Asmussen, usually an intense man who follows a tight schedule, wasn't supposed to be there. He had said the night before -- shortly after his brilliant 3-year-old, Curlin, had won a spectacular battle to win the 132nd Preakness by a head bob over Street Sense in a record-tying time of 1 minute, 53.46 seconds -- that he would be flying back to Lexington, Ky., that night.
But here he was, looking mellow, though he sheepishly smiled and said, "I don't think that [getting mellow] will happen."
But he had altered his schedule and acknowledged that yesterday was one of the rare times he didn't actually know how many of the 210 horses he trains were running in races.
"I…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Curlin's trainer savors victory: Preakness winner, Hard Spun likely...
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