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No underrating Summer Bird now

By David Grening
Daily Racing Form

Friday, October 2, 2009

ELMONT, N.Y. -- Summer Bird has played the underdog's role so well this summer that trainer Tim Ice wouldn't mind if his horse were to be overlooked again Saturday when he runs in the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. Sorry, Tim. Summer Bird's victories in the Belmont Stakes and Travers this summer - and even his second to superstar filly Rachel Alexandra in the Haskell Invitational - figure to put him in the favorite's role against fellow 3-year-old Quality Road and five ...

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