I had drinks with some Aborigines once, but I don't remember the horse. That might be because of how vividly I remember the big race, no doubt because my seats were located near where Alydar briefly took the lead & I almost had a heart attack. You see, I was a student at the time, & on the 5 hr drive down I got the bright idea to book all of my classmates' bets on Alydar.

If you haven't already, you might want to pick up a copy of Wink, which is about the jockey the NYRA named a MLK day stake after this year. He rode & won all of the big races in Moscow, where he was know as the "black maestro", & was forced by the Bolshevik army to make an 1100 mile march to Poland with 200 thoroughbreds.

I'm already looking forward to your rotw. If you're amenable, authorize JB to share your email address with me, as there's something I can't mention here that I think you might be interested in.