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Jockey Elliott gives U.S. a four-legged Rocky.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Bob Ford
LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ Long after the roses had been placed across the withers of the champion, long after the photo sessions in the winner's circle and the television interviews and the gauntlet of backslaps from teetering $2 players who also took a ride with Smarty Jones on Saturday, Stewart Elliott finally made it back to the stairs leading to the jockey's room at Churchill Downs.
Elliott came back a winner after guiding a horse with humble Philadelphia roots to the grandest prize in racing, the Kentucky Derby. Over a sloppy, treacherous track and before a screaming crowd of 140,054, Elliott gave win-starved Philadelphia a champ and gave the whole country a four-legged Rocky for which to cheer.
The saga will continue in Baltimore on May 15 when Smarty Jones and Elliott try for the Preakness Stakes, the second race of the Triple Crown. If all the sequels play out perfectly, Smarty Jones could end up the first Triple Crown winner in ...
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