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Back With Sam-Son, Pierce Hopes the Queen’s Plate is His Race to Win

“There are no second acts,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, “in American lives.” If the relationship between Sam-Son Farm and Malcolm Pierce is any indication, though, Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted words do not, it seems, apply to Canadians. In 1988, when Sam-Son won the first of the farm’s five Queen’s Plates, Pierce worked at the farm as an…

July 3, 2013 in Brooklyn Backstretch.

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