(Above:) Cam Casby's Laurentide Ice (on the outside in pink and silver silks) and rider Rafael Bejarano fight to the wire with the Live Oak Stable's Win With A Wink under Fernando Jara in a memorable stretch battle at the 2006 Saratoga meeting.
The Master Speed
No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.
You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky,
And back through history up the stream of time.
And you were given this swiftness, not for haste,
Nor chiefly that you may go where you will,
But in the rush of everything to waste,
That you may have the power of standing still --
Off any still or moving thing you say.
Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
-- Robert Frost (1)
