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Cleaning house

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, October 6, 2008

The Breeders' Cup goes Oct. 24 and 25 at Santa Anita and offers a welcome relief from the shysters, dopers, whiners and complainers who populate other sports. Time was, the horse race track was a shadowy place where characters of a dubious nature gathered to try to hoodwink somebody before they could be skinned, themselves. Even as recently as the Soprano run, when Tony went to the track, you wondered who was going to wind up pushing up cacti. But such is the case no more, at least, not entir ...

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