"From here on out," Mrs. Penny Tweedy remarked a few days before the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, "it's Turns and Rolaids." There seemed to be no grounds for nervous indigestion. After all, Tweedy's three-year-old colt Secretariat was heavily favored to win the Wood as a prelude to collecting the roses at the Kentucky Derby this week. But Secretariat faltered inexplicably and finished a mediocre third behind Angle Light and Sham. Suddenly this Saturday's contest at Churchill Downs shapes up as more of a horse race than the smart money had previously predicted....
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