My favorite must as always be His Felinity, the REAL Big Cat, Cougar II. (All of you now turn to the south and bow towards Chile.) The Coug positively LOOMED when he came looping around fields on the far turn. He didn't have to run as a closer - he got rank with the Shoe and led gate to wire in a 10f turf race during his first year in the US - but once he learned to close, that became his style; his San Juan Capistrano win vs Fort Marcy was glorious. I hugged a total stranger in the stands that day.
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