Sport: Upset Win for an Unknown Colt
In the Belmont, Temperence Hill spoils a showdown
Certain exhortations belong to certain sports. The official starter has always intoned the imperative: "Gentlemen, start your engines." Umpires immemorially have shouted: "Play ball!" Runners have forever been instructed: "On your mark, set, go!" But when the horses reached the starting gate for the 112th running of the Belmont Stakes, Track Caller Marshall Cassidy could have been forgiven if he were tempted to mix phrases.
In gate No. 1 was Genuine Risk, the filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky...
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