Absorbing to horse race followers is the perennial question of which is the fastest three-year-old. Almost as absorbing this year has been the question of which candidate for this honor has been most outrageously cheated of it by misfortune.
First and most obvious candidate for the championship was Joseph E. Widener's Brevity, whose dam is Ormanda and whose sire is either Chance Shot or Sickle. As equivocal as his paternity, Brevity won the Florida Derby in record time, then, odds-on favorite, he ran second in the Kentucky Derby and the Withers. His...
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