Damascus

Often he stands awkwardly in the winner's circle as his owner accepts the trophies. At other times he is back in the barn as his jockey is surrounded by press and pageantry. Mostly his job is one of frustration...

While his regular jockey, Willie Shoemaker, watched on TV and rested his broken leg, Damascus was taken along the rail by a substitute rider and lost the Strub Stakes by a head to a long shot

Damascus was supposed to win the International at Laurel but he couldn't get past a horse who almost was not invited to race

The last challenge for mighty Damascus, who has won on every other surface, is the Laurel turf as he meets a seven-nation field in the Washington, D.C. International race.