Interesting start to a typical brutally long-winded Vosburgh column about the dubious state of the handicap division going into the 1920 racing season:
If the print is too small - basically, everyone and their mother age four and up was either sore, broke down, going abroad, or retiring to stud.... except for three horses in the same stable.
As it turned out - Sir Barton wasn't as sore as feared and came back to make five starts between April 19th and May 4th alone.
Exterminator basically appeared to emerge from a very troubled division - and never got a crack at Man O' War - but the rest of MOW's badly maligned newly turned 3yo crop was his to feast on after MOW's retirement.
02-04-2011, 11:03 PM
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