The Daily Double Part 7

Sam the bugler plays the "Call to the Post" (perfectly in tune, of course!) as the thoroughbreds head off to the starting gate. The horses seem in good spirits; a group of healthy athletes looking forward to the race with an air of friendly competition bordering on camaraderie. Even Teabiscuit, the hands-down favorite, trots alongside longshot Rule the World as though they were old friends. Kitty gives Teabiscuit a little good-luck wave and the race is about to begin!

And they're off! Rule the World pulls out in front...it looks like she may win the Stakes after all, and all because of the G.R.O.U.T. serum! What a blow that would be to the spirit of fair play, to everything T.I.L.E. stands for, if the fake Kitty succeeds in her nefarious plot to fix the race. Where is Teabiscuit? Is the G.R.O.U.T. serum more powerful than Teabiscuit's talent? Did that voodoo work after all? Did Rule the World's femme fatale charms drive Teabiscuit to distraction? The fake Kitty certainly seems to think so!

No, wait: Teabiscuit is pulling ahead, while Rule the World falls behind! It is as though her conscience got the best of her all of a sudden. Now there is nothing to stop Teabiscuit. He pulls far out in front, farther, farther! No one can touch Teabiscuit! Teabiscuit wins the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown! The fake Kitty is beside herself with rage: "How could this happen? I did everything...the serum...the voodoo...the flirting...IT SHOULD HAVE WORKED!"

Yes, Teabiscuit has won the Triple Crown despite greater odds than any bookmaker could have predicted. He has taken his rightful place in the Winner's Circle with Tony Cordoba, the jockey who has guided him to victory after victory. He is the toast of the nation. And he is finally reunited with his beloved Kitty--the real Kitty--much to his delight. This sort of intrigue is all in a day's work for a du Mont. Yet the work is not done; there are still loose ends. What will become of Rule the World? Where is the fake Kitty?