FOUR WHEELS, FOUR HOOVES; For Tafel Racing, it's in the blood.(Motorsports)

Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH Two races, held on the same day, were only 118 miles away from each other, but the two worlds they represented could not have been much farther apart. You know about the first race: the 55th Annual 12 Hours of Sebring ("Deceptive Result,'' AW, March 26), perhaps America's most important endurance race, leading up to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, the world's most important endurance race.

Sebring was about halfway through when the second race started: the Tampa Bay Derby, a $300,000-purse horse race at Tampa Bay Downs. The derby is a critical ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.