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Lovstuen buck ascends to the throne, barely

By Lynn Burkhead
ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor — June 10, 2004

Thursday, June 10, 2004

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — On a cloudy Saturday in June, Smarty Jones, the people's horse, was nipped at the wire in his bid for horse-racing immortality when the forgotten Birdstone slipped up on the outside to take the Belmont Stakes. A similar tale nearly unfolded in America's heartland in recent days as the nation's deer-hunting crowd awaited the coronation of the remarkable Iowa non-typical whitetail deer harvested last Sept. 29 in Monroe County by teen-ager Tony Lovstuen. What had been vi ...

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