Elmont, NY - Punters are being warned off betting in Sautrday's renewal of the Belmont Stakes amid reports that an ancient Egyptian hex is stalking dual classic winner American Pharoah.
The 3/5 favorite is bidding to break the 37 year hoodoo affecting US champion steeds by becoming the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win thoroughbred racing's prestigious Triple Crown.
But despite the ridiculously short price racing experts such as influential online spread-betting website Aintgottaprayer.con are pointing out that Bob Baffert's magnificent Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner may be a dead duck in the water.
And that American Pharaoh in his racing blinkers 'bears an uncanny resemblance to Tutankhamun's death mask mummy' - something that really freaked out Egyptologist Howard Carter during excavations of the Boy King's tomb.
In 1922 Carter and George Herbert, the filth - uh, Fifth! - Earl of Carnarvon famously plundered a number of ancient Egyptian artefucts like the Great Pyramid of Geezer where Tutankhamun's sarcophagus was discovered.
Tragedy and a chain of unexplained horrible events then stalked the two men which fellow archeologists blamed on the pesky Boy King's ghost, pissed at the disturbance to his millenia-old desert grave.
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