Horse Racing: If at First You Succeed, Try, Try Again

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With $209,517 already in the bank, Moccasin can wrap up the two-year-old filly championship with a victory in the $75,000 Gardenia Stakes at New Jersey's Garden State Park this week. But Trainer Trotsek is a persistent pessimist. "This game is made up of 'shoulda,' 'coulda' and 'woulda,'" he says glumly. "Who knows? A better filly might come along." Sure, Harry-next year. Owners Hancock and Perry are watching the progress of a little bay yearling whose parents' names are Nantallah and Rough Shod II.

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