Your favorite thoroughbred racehorse, please. Secretariat? Phar Lap? Hoof Hearted?

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Excellent.

As a memory exercise I routinely say out loud (I'm not kidding) the 13 Triple Crown horses in order. I almost always forget Count Fleet.

@SW-User Horse racing is like boxing for me. When I was twenty to thirty I knew the champions and followed the sports closely. Over the years, for one reason or another, I lost interest. When I lived in Connecticut I went to Belmont Park and Saratoga a few times.

@eli1601 Me, too! I'm beginning to think MMA - the UFC in particular - has taken over from boxing.

Two of the best tracks... certainly two of the most well known :)

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Plus too many boxers fought way too long - Jerry Quarry for one.

@SW-User Ali fought too long, as well. The other thing was you had a WBA champion a WBC champion etc. And the personalities were gone.

When I first became aware of boxing, Sonny Liston had just destroyed Floyd Patterson for the second time and was supposed to do the same to Cassius Clay. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my dad listening to the Clay- Liston fight. It wasn't on TV.

When Ali and Joe Frazier fought the first time in 1971 I paid $16 to watch on closed circuit TV at the New Haven Arena. It is still the most electricity I have experienced at or watching a sporting event. Unforgettable.

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Excellent remembrances, Eli. I remember Johansson vs Patterson's 3 fights before that. I saw one of those (forget which one) on a friend's 17" black&white TV broadcast on cable (which was a big deal back then).

Ingemar with his "toonder and lightning" right fist.