It was 5:45 A.M. on a warm June morning in 1979 when Maurice (Mo) Hall, a groom at Hawksworth Farm, arrived at work. The sun had yet to rise and his employer, the thoroughbred trainer Bud Delp, had yet to show up. Mo’s real boss, though, the champion racehorse Spectacular Bid, was ready to get to work. He had already won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, and, that evening, he was going to run in the Belmont Stakes. If he won that, too, he’d be the third horse in as many years to w...
It was 5:45 A.M. on a warm June morning in 1979 when Maurice (Mo) Hall, a groom at Hawksworth Farm, arrived at work. The sun had yet to rise and his employer, the thoroughbred trainer Bud Delp, had yet to show up. Mo’s real boss, though, the champion racehorse Spectacular Bid, was ready to get to work. He had already won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, and, that evening, he was going to run in the Belmont Stakes. If he won that, too, he’d be the third horse in as many years to w...
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