There was a certain inevitability about the win, not just the odds and the sportscasters' predictions but the three-year-old leading the entire race, his second-only-to-Secretariat pace, his supple gallop, his champion's heart.
Only a few minutes before the race, the televised coverage took what I considered an unusual but heartening turn. It showed a printing press whirring out a newspaper and speculated on what tomorrow's headline would be.
Was I imagining this? A print newspaper? A headline? Not a click, a tweet or a post?
So yesterday, before I left Lexington, I picked up the newspaper. The Lexington Herald Leader's headline, which I regret I did not photograph, was "Long Live the King." The Washington Post's, which I regret I could not photograph better, was "American History."
American History in more ways than one.