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Jessica Paquette bought What a Trippi after admiring his grumpy, yet charming, personality.

Suffolk Downs publicist buys first racehorse

To hear Jessica Paquette describe the byplay she shared with What a Trippi at Suffolk Downs a couple years ago, one might be reminded, just a little, of the famous meeting decades earlier between Seabiscuit and trainer Tom Smith. For it was at Suffolk Downs that Seabiscuit was said to have nodded at Smith, making such an impression that Smith promised himself the two would meet again. And it was at the same track two years ago that Paquette had her own fateful moment with a short, grumpy racehorse she would vow to own. The 15.2 hand bay was entering the saddling area when Paquette called […]