Nicanor was hurt in his first race, but has trained very well since.
I'm sure many of the bets on him were purely emotional, or fan souvenirs.
But when the major news stations follow a fan-fav racehorse and his squeeky-clean, nice, popular Olympic-medal-winning trainer, that's good news in my eyes for the sport.
Much better than coverage of Dutrow declaring Big Brown off steroids.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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