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If the shoe helps, wear it

By Marty McGee
Daily Racing Form

Thursday, May 1, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The shoes. It's gotta be the shoes. Or, at least to some degree, it's the glued-on poly-flex horseshoes worn by Big Brown and Pyro that have helped to make them two of the most well-regarded contenders in the 134th Kentucky Derby. The vast majority of racehorses are shod with nailed-on aluminum plates when they race on a fast track, which is the forecasted condition of the Churchill Downs surface Saturday. But for horses with feet ailments or conformation defects, including ...

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