PROFILE
CHRISTOPHE CLEMENT
“What am I going to do with this?” Standing with his back to Tonalist’s stall, Christophe Clement ponders the Belmont Stakes winner’s garland of white carnations, draped over the shedrow wall. The removal of keepsake souvenir flowers has laid bare in spots the dark green velvet cloth foundation. One day after the Belmont, the heat has seen the flowers begin to shrivel into what look like a child’s craft project of wads of white, crinkled tissue paper. Preserve them? “They look too old already,” he says. WORDS: FRANCES J KARON PHOTOS: FRANCES J KARON, NANCY ROKOS
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