If you haven't visited the Sports Illustrated Vault (thanks to Jessica at Railbird for making me aware of it) and you are a student of horse racing history, you are really missing something.
Here's one of the very few articles I could find on the upset winner of the 1972 Preakness Bee Bee Bee . Bee Bee Bee was the terror of Timonium, he once won a race there by 17 lengths but that meant little before he went up against Riva Ridge, Key To The Mint and No Le Hace in the Preakness with the equally obscure Eldon Nelson aboard.
Worse than finding an article about this relatively recent Preakness, for the life of me I have never been able to find a picture of Bee Bee Bee anywhere on line, an obscurity he does not deserve as any racing fan, long in the tooth, like me knows.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Bee Bee Bee: The Invisible Preakness Winner
Posted by John at Monday, May 12, 2008
Labels: Bee Bee Bee, Preakness
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Picture at the horse pedigree site:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/bee+bee+bee
Click on the picture next to his name.
Good find Geno, it brought a few memories back!
Great stuff -- Thanks for the link. I am hoping for a similar surprise this Saturday!
John - I'm at work, and tried to access the article. But that site is blocked, and I got this message:
Forbidden Category "Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit"
I don't think it's referring to the sloppy conditions that day.
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