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By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, January 26, 2009

When horse racing is mentioned on TV, and it's not about a real race, most of those familiar with the game know what that means: If it's a fictional TV show -- if horse racing is used as a plot for a weekly series episode -- here come the crooks, there go the degenerates, will you look at all the loafers. If horse racing is the subject for one of those "news" reports, "news" in the contemporary sense standing for somebody good-looking angling for an award, the non-fiction story figures to be abo ...

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