In 2003, Mac Nichol went to Lexington, picked out a pacing colt and bought him...

Marvin Katz had won the North America Cup twice before...

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In 2003 Mark Capone’s Allamerican Native got picked up late...

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Pour moi, la « zone des écuries » n’est pas simplement la ligne droite opposée au fil d’arrivée, là où les chevaux courent en direction du poteau du ¾. Pour moi, et pour beaucoup d’autres, le backstretch est l’endroit où je suis véritablement tombé amoureux des courses de chevaux.

Les images, les sons, l’atmosphère et, oui, l’odeur de la zone des écuries me donnaient des frissons quand j’étais plus jeune.

To me, ‘The Backstretch’ isn’t the straightaway opposite the homestretch, where the horses race on their way toward the ¾ pole. To me, and many others, the backstretch is the place where I truly fell in love with horse racing.

The sights, the sounds, the atmosphere, and definitely the smell of the backstretch, was something that gave me chills when I was younger.

When Dave Briggs finished his Masters in Journalism at The University of Western Ontario, the only experience he had around horses was a one-time assignment that took place on a cold winter night at Western Fair.