Triple Crown winner Justify gets college football world buzzing
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The University of Louisville, which for three prior seasons featured likely the country's fastest quarterback in Lamar Jackson, needed a star for its 2018 media guide cover with Jackson off to the NFL. So, enter the country's fastest horse.
Triple Crown winner Justify is featured alongside of receivers Seth Dawkins, Dez Fitzpatrick and Jaylen Smith, with thew words "Speed City" below.
The cover reads: "Fast Thoroughbreds aren't the only ones who accelerate to win here. Louisville Cardinals have been taking flight at a break-neck pace for over a century."
Is it corny? Heck yes. But it's 2018, the Internet loves this type of thing, and it resonates with an old saying by coach Bobby Petrino: "Feed the studs."
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