Some 3-year-olds will grow up in time for Breeders' Cup next fall.(The Dallas Morning News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 20, 2004| Author: West, Gary | Copyright information

Byline: Gary West

DALLAS _ This is an ideal time to remove the rose-colored glasses, look beyond the Kentucky Derby, if only for a moment, and peer a little further into the future. Horse racing's first season, the Triple Crown season, is always festive and compelling: The air's charged with expectation and possibility; heads become dizzy with dreams. Like baseball, it happens every spring.

But beyond the Triple Crown waits the championship season, which culm...

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