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Summer Bird ready for next challenge

By Claire Novak
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 2, 2009

ELMONT, NY -- He was born September 15, squalling bundle thrust into the arms of Heather Ice at a hospital in Louisiana, his picture snapped and shuttled across cyberspace to a barn in New York in his first minutes here on earth. Standing next to Summer Bird's stall at Belmont one day before the colt would tackle older horses in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Tim Ice pulled out his cell phone and scrolled through images of a son he has yet to hold. "It's unreal, you know?" He said, 35 years old, pa ...

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