“It’s all about the team,” he said of the connections of Street Sense. “Like in horse racing, there’s a team effort. (Carl Nafzger) is the team leader, and there’s (jockey Calvin ...

“One thing gets you to the winner’s circle — the horse is what ... Should Street Sense win, a Triple Crown bid might be the perfect remedy for racing a year after Derby winner Barbaro ...

or anything the horse did wrong, it was a different combination of factors." Some now believe that Street Sense has the bloodlines and racing style to finally break the Triple Crown jinx.

Maybe they can't beat people in business anymore. Horse racing is another way to compete," he said. Street Sense is owned by Jim Tafel, who retired in 1983 as board chairman and chief executive ...

Steve Haskin, senior correspondent for The Blood-Horse who has observed and written extensively on the 3-year-old racing scene, said the championship is Street Sense’s to lose. He believes ...

“If Street Sense runs his race ... all the vicissitudes of horse racing Tafel and just about everyone else at Pimlico Race Course next Saturday will be reminded of last year’s Preakness ...

“Street Sense obviously is a champion, but this horse is only going to get better.” Nafzger felt some anxiety during the stretch run. “He nearly always will finish when he’s hooked up ...

Not only was Street Sense out for a jog 12 hours after ... but the colt hasn’t missed a beat in almost 14 months of racing. Simply to keep a young horse together like that from his 2-year ...