On the off chance you haven’t heard, Perry Martin and Steve Coburn’s homebred California Chrome will try to make history on Saturday by winning the Belmont Stakes and becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. And, living and working in one of the world’s Thoroughbred meccas, that chestnut colt with the big white blaze and those four white socks is a familiar sight on the television, in newspapers, and across the Internet.

The then 28-year-old Seattle Slew with Mickey and Karen Taylor

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