In Barry Bonds' shadow, another tainted record?
Any sports fan can relate to the mixed emotions in a horse-racing story gathering pace at Bay Meadows in San Mateo.
Just down Highway 101 from where Barry Bonds has been chasing baseball’s most famous record, Russell Baze is riding for thoroughbred racing’s equivalent. After winning three races Sunday afternoon, Baze is 11 wins from Laffit Pincay’s 9,530, the record for the world’s jockeys. Pincay took the record from Bill Shoemaker, who took it from Johnny Longden.
That Pincay, Shoemaker and Longden are among their game’s beloved legends, and Baze is not, gives this race its weird drama.
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