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After four decades, trainer Ed Moger gets his first Triple Crown starter

Horses on morning exercise run at Santa Anita Park on Friday morning, Sept. 27, 2019, as it opens for 23- day Autumn Meet in Arcadia, California.

LOS ANGELES — Horse racing is all about the Triple Crown, three races for 3-year-olds held over a five-week period. The vast majority of trainers never get there, but it doesn't keep them from trying.

Ed Moger Jr., 67, has been a trainer for more than four decades. He's had more than 15,000 starts and is approaching 2,000 winners. His horses have won more than $36 million. But he's never started a horse in either the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes or Belmont Stakes.

Until this year.

His horse, Chase the Chaos, got an all-expenses paid trip to the

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