Trainer Michael Puhich was hospitalized with a faulty liver in 2024, when his world got even worse. One of his grooms called Puhich at the hospital to tell him that Background, a 7-year-old barn favorite who won the 2021 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs, had been claimed for $32,000.
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