After the Run for the Roses, what comes next?

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THE horses good enough toreach the top of the mountainand win the Run for the Rosesdon’t necessarily keepwinning. While four of the lastten Derby winners also captured thePreakness Stakes (War Emblem, FunnyCide, Smarty Jones and Big Brown), onlytwo …

Every trainer in North America tries to get their three- year-olds to peak on the first Saturday of May. Then

what? What happens to the Kentucky Derby alumni after that grueling mile-and-a-quarter Classic?

By Bill Heller

First Published (20 April 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 20)

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