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From Claimer to Grade I to Retirement: Catching Up with Mabou

Four years ago August 4, David Jacobson claimed a horse at Saratoga. Nothing terribly unusual about that, nor about the fact that Jacobson ran the horse, who had finished fifth, back 21 days later, nor that the trainer bumped the bay gelding way up in class for that next start, nor that Jacobson won with…

August 13, 2015 in Thoroughbred retirement.

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