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...Week" [June 14]: I was nauseated by the endless stream of apologies made to Smarty Jones and his camp after Birdstone won the Belmont Stakes, the real test of horse-racing greatness. Birdstone was the best horse that day. His breeding and an exquisite, masterful ride by jockey Edgar Prado took him across the finish line first. TIME gets a gold star for recognizing a true champion. Elaine Duett Coral Gables...
Even the winning jockey, Edgar Prado, seemed disappointed. "I'm very sorry that happened," he said after his horse, BIRDSTONE, beat Smarty Jones in the Belmont Stakes by a length, "but I had to do my job." Thoroughbred racing fans should be accustomed by now to that sick feeling, with six horses in the past eight years having lost the Triple Crown in the final stretch, but Smarty Jones, the country's sweetheart, was supposed to be different. There was one group, however, that went home happy: the folks who bet on Birdstone, whose odds were...
When it was time to march to the gate, Smarty, a deep liver chestnut standing at a modest 15 hands 3 in., was dwarfed by some of the big battleship horses he would be racing against. But starting from the six spot in a 10-horse field, jockey Stewart Elliott, 39, ran a smart race that belied the horse's size...
...Ruggiero may have been joking when she issued this statement, but surely something—though unethical—could have been done to put her over Lindquist. After all, Ruggiero clobbered jockey Julie Krone by over 80 percent in the opening round. And other Harvard female athletes hadn’t lost faith as the voting neared its end that Ruggiero could still eke out a victory...
Palestinian factions often jockey to lay claim to nonmilitant "martyrs" as a way to expand their base by showing their deep-pocketed generosity. But Hamas does the same for slain fighters in a well-oiled campaign to turn every death to its advantage. One unit arrives at the morgue with a loudspeaker van to play Hamas' famous funeral song. Another unit organizes volunteers to carry the body, draped in a green Hamas flag, to the dead person's house, then to the mosque and then to burial. For Muslims, accompanying the body earns points in heaven. A third unit goes...