Remembering Omaha After 75 Years

My best guess is that Joe Talamo, who will ride Sidney's Candy in the Kentucky Derby, never heard of Willie "Smokey" Saunders. Talamo is 20 years old and has never ridden in the Derby, and 75 years ago Saunders was the same age, sans Derby experience, when he and Omaha won in Louisville on their way to a sweep of the triple crown. They were mostly spelling the name of the series in lower case then.

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