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No holding back Zensational

By Claire Novak
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, November 5, 2009

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Bob Baffert stood on the apron at Santa Anita and watched Zensational haul exercise rider Jorge Alvarez around the California oval. It was Thursday morning, two days before the win-streaking runner headed into the Breeders' Cup Sprint, and Baffert was contemplating the terrifying yet thrilling potential of a ferocious speed duel. "We don't rate," said Baffert. "My instructions, to the letter, are: 'Let him go as fast as he can as far as he can.'" The newly minted Hall of Fa ...

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