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Wicked Strong’s Kelvin Pahal: “I want to beat him.”

Every morning at 5:30, Kelvin Pahal arrives at work. Rain or shine, hot or cold, he travels the five minutes from his home in Queens Village to the backstretch of Belmont Park, where for the next five hours he rides horses, preparing them to race. The life of an exercise rider can be fairly routine,…

June 7, 2014 in Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown.

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