Silver Charm aims for Cigar's earnings mark, will run Friday.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 26, 1998| Author: Wall, Maryjean | Copyright information

The torch has been lighted for Silver Charm, passed to him by Skip Away. With the other gray horse gone to stud, Silver Charm will take up where his rival left off, trying to pass Cigar as the leading money-winning racehorse of all time.

Silver Charm will take the first step Friday, when he makes a late-season appearance in the $400,000-added Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. Unlike so many other racing stars who were retired to stud after the Breeders' Cup, Silver Char...

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