Big Brown's Belmont, of course, did not go as planned, and he finished dead last after jockey Kent Desormeaux felt something amiss on the far turn and gingerly galloped him home.
With the presidential race considered a dead heat, both campaigns jockeyed hard for advantage the day after the 90-minute nationally televised debate.
"I'm submitting a paper to the BHA to request that we sit down and have a meeting and go through a proper consultation process in regard to these financial penalties because the jockeys are dead against them," he told the Racing Post.
In the mid-90s, the Kurds fought each other over resources in a bloody civil war that left thousands dead as rival political factions jockeyed for power.
Many erstwhile fans assumed that he was dead; when a local radio disc jockey casually voiced that belief, Scott's wife telephoned the station to put him straight.
Sadder news comes from Churchill Downs, where jockey Michael Baze was found dead in his car Wednesday morning, and from New York, where the sports newspaper cartoonist Bill Gallo died at age 88.
When the jockey Chris Antley was found dead in his California home, the police initially treated it as a homicide; the coroner's office declined to confirm that, pending further tests.
"Tosca: Desperate Love," concocted by an aging Italian soft-rock star in 2002, tried nuns stripping down to red lingerie in Act I, and an angel in jockey shorts swooping the dead Tosca up to heaven.
DJ AM, the high-profile disc jockey who was found dead last week in his Manhattan apartment, had seven pills in his system when his body was discovered, a city official said on Wednesday night.
Win Willy was coming from dead last and passing horses, and his jockey, Cliff Berry, was feeling good.
