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chelsea0011

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2. Truly one of the greats

Reply to twogunsid (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 06:07 AM

Mar 2015

I caught Onion one day in a claiming race at Suffolk Downs some years later. I remember looking down at the program and thinking, "wasn't that the horse that beat Secretariat years ago", and is now on the lowly claiming circuit?

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