Arlen '52 in Sunday's New York Times magazine. Gone is the traditional 'Cliffie with "her stringy dark hair, long, pale, intense face and black wool stockings; her green bookbag, stapled at birth ...

The abscess popped Thursday, leading Zito to hope “Cliffie” could pull a Sunday Silence, who overcame foot trouble to beat Easy Goer in the ’89 Preakness. “After [the abscess] came out ...

“When you’re switching to Gary Stevens, you’re not experimenting,” Zito said yesterday from Saratoga, where “Cliffie” worked five furlongs over the deep Oklahoma training track in 1:03.