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Codex, Genuine Risk, and the Preakness DQ That Wasn’t

As Alan Foreman sat watching the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby last Saturday afternoon, he had a Yogi Berra moment. “It was déjà vu all over again,” he said by phone this week. In 1980, Foreman was the state attorney representing the Maryland Racing Commission in Bertram and Diana Firestone’s appeal of the stewards’ decision in that…

May 16, 2019 in Preakness 2019, racing history.

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