Deep Impact -- it was a movie; it was a NASA mission; it's a super colt poised to make history this weekend in Kyoto when he makes his bid for the Triple Crown.
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The son of American champion Sunday Silence claimed the first two legs of Japan's Triple Crown, the Satsukisho and the Nippon Derby, by 2 1/2 lengths and five, and he has yet to know defeat in his six races to date.