Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
By the narrowest of noses, Colonel John got his head down at the exact instant when the shutter clicked on the finish line camera to win the 139th Travers, the centerpiece of the Saratoga Race Course summer....
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