Horse Racing: Bon Voyage!

Before last week's $91,900 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, Wheatley Stable's Trainer Bill Winfrey pointed gaily to the magnificent shiner that one of his horses had given him when it kicked him in the barn. "Tell you what I'll do," he said. "If they beat our Bold Lad, I'll eat the steak I've been wearing on my eye."

Cook it rare. At post time, the odds on Bold Lad were 1-2—despite the fact that last year's two-year-old champion had raced only once since last October, had never run around two turns, or gone the 1½-mile distance of the Wood....

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