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LETS US TOAST TO THE GREAT WAR EMBLEM.(Sports)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20020605
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Byline: LARRY LEE PALMER COLUMNIST

NEW YORK -- A good horse can be picked

by its general build and appearance.

But the mark of a superlative horse -

one that raises no dust

and leaves no tracks -

that mark is evanescent and fleeting,

as elusive as air.

Few eyes remark it.

- Jean Merrill

Greetings from the Big Apple, and welcome to the corner table of the Algonquin Hotel where, at midnight, the ghosts of Ring Lardner and Damon Runyan linger like the musk of fine Cuban cigars.

This morning, racing scribes and apparitions alike will ...

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