Tom Fool: A Measure Above
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Racing history features a long list of well-documented near-misses. They are the horses that came teasingly close to winning the Triple Crown, but fell short for one reason or another.
Falling into a far different category are the could haves and should haves. The horses who should have won the Triple Crown or could have captured it … but never even made it to one of the races.
Tom Fool is perhaps one of the sport’s greatest could haves/should haves.
At two, he was a champion. At four, he dominated the year in a fashion few other runners have matched.