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Summer Bird just keeps getting better

By Claire Novak
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, October 3, 2009

ELMONT, N.Y. -- The clouds had been hovering low over old Belmont Park since early morning, threat of rain forecast by weathermen across Nassau County. Three hours before the 91st running of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a looming front dropped into place. At 3:45p.m. the heavens opened. Trainer Tim Ice calmly surveyed the deluge from the NYRA detention barn. Down in the jockeys' room the valets were pulling out rain pants and waterproof silks and one rider remarked to another that the weather mirr ...

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