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Horse racing: Afleet Alex deserves look for top honor

Published 11/06/05

Within minutes after Saint Liam won the Breeders' Cup Classic, people in the Belmont Park press box were saying the 5-year-old horse from Ricky Dutrow's barn at Aqueduct deserves to be named Horse of the Year. The usually staid Associated Press didn't even blink. Quickly on its wires, it stated him the champ, with the only loophole being he had the title "probably wrapped up."

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Hardly anyone could be found to bring up as a prospect the name of Alfeet Alex, who had stunned racing with his heroics in May by wrapping up two-thirds of the Triple Crown. Had it not been for his 1-length loss to Giacomo in the Kentucky Derby. after a couple...

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