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Back To Last Call OnlineSeptember 23, 2009
The Jug, the eight-hole and Well Said: Victory enhances his legacy
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
Steve Elliott was holding court in the palatial Little Brown Jug barn yesterday morning when a fan approached and commiserated over the trainer’s star horse, Well Said, drawing the dreaded outside eight-hole.
On the tiny half-mile bullring at the Delaware County Fairgrounds north of Columbus, Ohio, the eight hole is the next worse thing to a death sentence in the Jug which goes to post this afternoon.
But this is the Jug, after all. If Well Said does not win, most will say he was a victim of his post. If he wins, his already-solid legacy will be enhanced.
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