Jude by Jeff Nesbit

Author:Jeff Nesbit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Principalities, World Domination, Supernatural, Thriller, Destiny, Prepper, Survivalism, Knights Templar, Climate Change, American Redoubt, Central Park, Regents
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published: 2013-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Alydar’s Ghost won the Kentucky Derby by three lengths, going away. The prerace favorite, the horse with the blue and white colors, pulled up a bit lame about three-quarters of the way through the race and finished well back in the pack. Two of the other favorites had what the handicappers called “rough trips”—one veered wide for some unexplained reason around the far turn and a second stumbled against the railing without provocation. There was no race inquiry afterward.

Just as Jude had predicted, every single sportswriter seized immediately on the storyline. ALYDAR RIDES AGAIN! screamed the headline on the top of the Daily Racing Form. There was massive speculation about whether Alydar’s Ghost would right the wrong that so many racing fans still remembered from the Affirmed-Alydar duels.

And Jude was right there at every step, calmly telling the story about how he’d been enthralled with the hope—the mere possibility—that he’d once seen in the young yearling at the Keeneland sales.

“I fell in love with Alydar’s Ghost the moment I saw him,” Jude told the writer for Sports Illustrated. “And I just believed, in my heart, that Alydar’s Ghost might bring back that long-lost glory from 1978.”

“So you truly believed that Alydar’s Ghost might be the first Triple Crown winner in a generation?” the sportswriter asked him.

“I thought Alydar’s Ghost could right that wrong,” Jude said confidently. “And it might just happen.”

When Alydar’s Ghost won the Preakness two weeks later, the story broke out of the sports world and on to the front pages of nearly every newspaper in the world. With Jude providing colorful quotes along the way, the story about how Alydar’s Ghost just might “right the wrong” done by Affirmed way back in 1978 launched itself to the top of the public’s mind.

By the time the Belmont Stakes arrived, Jude’s winsome, smiling face had appeared in hundreds of publications alongside pictures of the now-famous descendant of Alydar. Tens of millions of people tuned in to the Belmont, nearly all hoping that Alydar’s Ghost would win and “right the wrong.”

There were so many photographers at the finish line of the Belmont on race day that they had to bring in rows of bleachers to accommodate them. Everyone wanted to be there when Alydar’s Ghost crossed the finish line first.

When they announced the horses on the track, most of the photographers turned their cameras skyward toward the owners’ boxes to capture Jude waving happily at the crowd below.

And when Alydar’s Ghost won the Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner in a generation, Jude immediately announced, live on the network covering the race, that he would donate both the race purse as well as the proceeds from the Triple Crown purse that hadn’t been claimed since 1978 to the International Red Cross efforts in parts of the sub-Saharan that had been dealing with a three-year drought. The kid billionaire was now the quite-famous owner of a Triple Crown winner—the owner who’d found the horse to “right the wrong” as it rode to triumph and into the history books.

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