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— by some — to be as bad as forgetting to touch the good luck hoofpick on race morning.
Case in point?
At the 2002 International Gold Cup races, copious program notes reveal a trend. Whether a good trend or a bad trend is up for debate.
Best Turned Out in the first race, Punchino, was unplaced — last, actually — in his two-mile race. Out the back. Tailed off. Nowhere.
But look closer. The gelding had raced without apparent success twice before that year and seems to have given up on steeplechasing shortly thereafter.
In the very next race, Kinross Farm’s Sur La Tfete was judged Best Turned Out (his shimmering bay hindquarters replete with a carefully traced checkerboard pattern. > Minutes later, he went out and trounced a field of maiden hurdlers.
That jockey Chris Read “forgot” to weigh in after
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