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.
Fresh off a workmanlike victory in the Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 30, Curlin takes aim at history in today’s Grade I $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont....
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