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An asterisk for this year’s Belmont? No, thank you.

If you’re above a certain age, you’ll remember that phrase as the iconic tagline in advertisements for Blackglama furs, a campaign that began in the late 1960s and ran for nearly 50 years, associating the fur company’s products with glamorous stars like Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Gisele Bundchen, and Janet Jackson. The idea was that…

June 3, 2024 in Belmont Stakes, racing history, Saratoga.

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