The pressure was building. Ever since Carolyn and Sonny Hine's Skip Away had beaten two-time Horse of the Year Cigar last fall, the expectations on the Florida-bred colt were huge. Skip Away was to pick up where the retired Cigar had left off. ...
A lot had transpired since Cigar had won his first Massachusetts Handicap last year for his eighth victory in a row.
Boston is widely known as a sports-mad city and today's fifth stop of the World Series proved this nickname true.
Waquoit, ridden by Chris McCarron, held off a late stretch drive by Broad Brush, the favorite, for an upset victory yesterday in the 53d running of the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in Boston.
