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Time is curing Francis's bout of scientific prematurity (Stent 1972).
The media's feel-good story lines focused on 1) the underestimated horse, who was offered for sale in February but had no takers; 2) trainer Wayne Lukas, who got the victory despite the fact that rival trainer Bob Baffert had three favored horses in the race and had won the last two Derbys; and 3) jockey Chris Antley, who had been thinking of quitting the sport after a bout with drug abuse in the late '80s and a weight problem last year.
His jockey in both races, Chris Antley, is coming back from a bout with drug abuse in the late '80s and a weight problem last year.
The venture is helping McMurtry recover from a long bout of depression.
In a pitiless review in a recent New York Times Book Review , novelist Kathryn Harrison wrote that Farrow exaggerates the emotional damage wrought by an early bout with polio, unfairly vilifies Allen, and tries to "solicit sympathy in the court of public opinion."