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Originally Posted by oracle80
My only thought it that having a race named for him at the site of his career ending injury, on the same Preakness day racecard will always conjure up memories of the injury. I'm not real keen on this.
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I agree...why not another day or another track? It's a nice gesture and he probably deserves it, but on preakness day at pim seems like it will remind people more of the tragedy of his injury rather than the triumph of his survival.
I also don't really like it in general when they rename races...