One morning last week, before the dew was off the bluegrass at Kentucky's Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time:58 2/5ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another.
All that day in the barns, the stable hands talked. They agreed that Coaltown, a...
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