OCEANPORT, N.J. - He won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last year, then six months later became the first horse to parlay a win in that race to one in the Kentucky Derby. Since then, he has added the Travers Stakes to his resume. And on Saturday at Monmouth Park, Street Sense will try to go out a winner in his final start, the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, which would cap an unprecedented quartet of victories.
The mountain of accomplishments is mirrored by the ease in which Street Sense goes about his work. The other morning at Monmouth Park, trainer Carl Nafzger was surrounded by a thicket of press when one reporter began a question thus: “Have you ever had …?” (via Hard Spun News)