THE SHORE'S GREATEST STRETCH

Monmouth Park. The $1.25 million Haskell Invitational. Where Champions Prove Their Greatness. And it's also where an entire crowd entrenched at the rail to see Rachel Alexandra take it to the boys got totally, utterly, unabashedly craned. The only thing that got blindsided harder than these people that day was my wallet and a Windmill cheesedog soon there after.

So let's recap - Rachel aka Cranechel Alexandra leaves the boys in the mud, I lost my ass betting longshots all day, some hustler showed up wearing purple shorts with the green back pocket that I thought only existed in my mind, and all these people got craned in the rain. Now that folks, is what you call a superfecta.