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Derby Listening Post

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The day before yesterday, I was only a handful of bets and a few lengths from $9,000 and change. That's nothing. A friend of mine was this close to hauling home around $11,000. A wino was one horse off something like $4,500. A lawyer just missed a $300 Exacta with a fifty-dollar bill. A friend of a bum needed but one horse to hit an IRS Super. And an acquaintance of a neighbor had one runner slightly out of place in a monster tri. And that was just in one corner of the simulcast joint over th ...

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