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To Capp It Off, Luck Is a Rarely Viewed Commodity

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870917
Author:ANDREW BEYER

Capp It Off has been a brilliantly fast and admirably consistent racehorse throughout her career, but owner Oliver Goldsmith has one regret about his 5-year-old mare: "She's never had Lady Luck in her corner."

This bad luck will certainly compromise her chances in the $100,000 State of Maryland Distaff Handicap, one of the nine events that comprise the Maryland Million at Pimlico Saturday. Capp It Off won it last year, and would have figured to dominate the six-furlong event again had it not been for a misfortune that befell her in the spring.

Capp It Off was galloping at Laurel one morning ...

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