I found this article earlier this evening:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 46,7313492

PEAT MOSS could be seen in the paddock with his head drooping down slowly with his eyes coming to a close while being saddled. If you hit him with a bat I don't think he'd get mad. I think he could do 6 furlongs in a minute and 20 seconds.

The horse could do a mile in about 1:40 or 1:44 on the plod but on the second mile he became a racehorse and nobody was going to do a distance with him without a brawl. I miss the Display Handicap at two miles and a quarter on New Year's Eve at Aqueduct. From out of nowhere you would see PEAT MOSS in gear along the backstretch the second time around looking like a young sprinter with tons of run.

Trainer Murray Garren once said, "PEAT MOSS once worked four fulongs in under two days."

I miss the distance races. And the horses that made 20 or 30 starts in a year.