The Baffert youngsters predicted an easy victory for War Emblem.
A victory by War Emblem would cap a weeklong marketing blitz by Visa in New York, the home turf of one of its rivals, the American Express Company.
So in some ways the draw could not have played out better for the man seeking his first Derby victory since War Emblem won in 2002.
If they are taller than the structures of a rival tribe, city, culture, or nation, they are also emblems of victory, trophies symbolizing the possession of the best engineering, architecture, social, and military organization and the greatest wealth.
Mr. Baffert said at the time that he hoped War Emblem's victory in Illinois wasn't a fluke.
She had a mastectomy at a Louisville hospital six days after her last victory, aboard Richter's Emblem in a claiming race at Turfway Park on Sept. 7.
Those close to the prince say he is aware that War Emblem's victory in the Derby was not overwhelmingly popular -- partly because of his last-minute purchase of the colt, which made it seem to some as if he had bought the Derby, and perhaps because he was the first Arab owner to win a Derby, although Arab owners have been prominent in American racing since the 1980's.
As the emblem of victory, the quadriga was sometimes adopted by the Romans to grace the triumphal arch by being placed on its summit; and even in the private houses of great families, chariots were displayed as the indications of rank, or the memorials of conquest and of triumph (Juv. VIII.3).
The victories of War Emblem, the Kentucky Derby winner owned at the time by Prince Ahmed bin Salman, who died of a heart attack not long after the triumphs, made plain just how much Saudi interests have grown in thoroughbred racing circles.
Many wrote off War Emblem's upset victory in the Kentucky Derby as a fluke because he was able to make the pace unchallenged while setting slow fractions.
On the morning after War Emblem's convincing victory in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, Baffert, his trainer, sounded as if he were on the verge of making racing history.
