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Mr. Z: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

As the field for the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes hit the eighth pole on Monday, owner Ahmed Zayat was probably thinking that he had a pretty good shot at winning his second Kentucky Derby prep this month, and a heck of a weekend. On Saturday, Zayat accepted the Eclipse Award for American Pharoah, last year’s…

January 20, 2015 in Kentucky Oaks 2015, Oaklawn Park.

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