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Sandra McKee

Maryland-owned horse ties North American mark with 19 straight wins

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 7:31pm

BALTIMORE -- At first glance, Rapid Redux looked small compared with his four competitors in Laurel Park's sixth race Thursday afternoon.

But by the time the chestnut was finished running the seven-furlong starter allowance race on the muddy track, he had proved himself one of the most durable horses in racing history.

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At age 71, Mario Andretti is anything but retired

Sandra McKee The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 3:49pm

BALTIMORE -- Some things never change. As you walk around the hospitality and pit areas at an IZOD IndyCar race you can still find Mario Andretti signing autographs more than five decades since he drove his first racecar in competitive open wheel racing.

Andretti, the most versatile American racecar driver in history, is at age 71, theoretically, long retired. But that's hard to prove.

Through four decades beginning in the 1960s he won four Indy Car championships and became the only driver in motorsports history to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), the Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (1978).

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