| Keeneland Spring Race Meet News: |
| Rusty Arnolds biggest thrill as a Thoroughbred trainer came in 1997 when G. Watts Humphrey Jr.s homebred Clear Mandate won the Grade I Three Chimneys Spinster Stakes here at Keeneland. Why? Because it was at Keeneland, and its one of the best races at Keeneland, he explained. And Id been second the year before with Top Secret and then came back to win it.
Arnold and Humphrey shook hands after the race and then hugged each other. This is a great win for both of us, Arnold said. We both grew up around here and we both always dreamed of winning a race like this at Keeneland. This is a dream come true. Really and truly it is. |
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| Spring of course is a magic time each year, as we shake away the doldrums of a long Winter, and welcome many new seasons. For some, the "catalyst" that triggers Spring, is the blooming of the cherry blossoms on the mall in Washington, D.C. For others, Spring is celebrated with the catch and release of a rainbow trout, and for yet others, that first sound of a wooden bat hitting a baseball is the first sign the the chills of Winter are over. For my mind however, the "trumpet" that arouses me from my Winter doldrums is that silent call beckoning me back to Kentucky ... not to Churchill Downs however (where I will once again be in May), but to the track that "time has forgotten" - beautiful Keeneland Race course in Lexington, Kentucky. |