AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
See you next year, Smarty? What if ...(New-Age Thinking)
Unless you're Secretariat, you don't win the Belmont Stakes after running the first mile and a quarter faster than you ran that distance to win the Kentucky Derby. In the Belmont, there's still a killer quarter to go.
Which is why poor Smarty Jones became the 10th straight good horse in 26 years to win the Derby and Preakness only to lose the Belmont and the Triple Crown.
On the lead and exhausted, Smarty Jones had no answer when Birdstone passed him.
The stillness that fell over the crowd of 120,139--reportedly a record for a sporting event in New York--was defined by the grande dame of thoroughbred racing, Marylou Whitney, who said, "We do feel terrible."
And her horse won.
"I'm very sorry," jockey Edgar Prado said.
And he won.