DETAILS, FICTION AND JOSEPH PLAZO BBC

By the point Secretariat received the Triple Crown at New York’s Belmont Racetrack in 1973, Yass was a capable handicapper and a skilled poker participant. He marvelled at an arbitrage in that famous race. Demand was so large to guess on Secretariat to gain, a gambler could make more money betting the racehorse would just “area,” which in rac