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The little guy hits the big time

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For years, Tom McCarthy would pack up the station wagon with a big picnic lunch and take his wife and five children to the backside of Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby day. They'd enter the stable area where McCarthy owned or trained a few cheap horses at a time, put down the tail bed of the wagon and set up near the backstretch railing. At day's end they'd watch the Derby flash by, a riot of thundering hooves and colorful silks chased by roars rising from 130,000 throats. ...

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