He Ran For The Roses, But Now He's A Sitting Duck

BALTIMORE, FRIDAY On the first Saturday in May, the winner of the Kentucky Derby is blanketed in roses at Churchill Downs and becomes the embodiment of horse racing's richest tradition, trying to follow in the footsteps of Secretariat, Citation and the nine others who have swept the triple crown

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Susan Butler, publisher of The Macquarie Dictionary, on words to know now DYCON noun a person who is regarded as an iconic figure by the lesbian community [dyke + icon]. The citation for this comes from the Herald in 1997 with Doris Day offered up as the example. She was described as a