Saratoga Springs Trainer Jimmy Jerkens realizes saddling the unheralded V.E. Day comes with none of the pressure that accompanies his stablemate Wicked Strong. Wicked Strong ran in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes with the hype of a Wood Memorial winner who is named to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Meanwhile, V.E. Day didn't even race as a 2-year-old and had never been in a stakes before entering the gate for Friday's $100,000 Curlin at Saratoga Race Course. "It's distracting, with all the...
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