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Diversify Provides Emotional Win in the Jockey Club Gold Cup

As Diversify rounded the final sweeping turn at Belmont Park in Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), Rodney Paine, perched on a platform above the finish line, started yelling. “Come on, Big D!” he exhorted. “Dig in! Dig in, Big D!” And dig in did the four-year-old son of Bellamy Road. Having led largely…

October 8, 2017 in Belmont fall 2017.

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