As a two-year-old in 1927, Sun Beau won one race and lost three. There was nothing then to mark him as a good race horse nor was there the next year when he lost two-thirds of his 23 races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to...
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