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Behind the Bets: Mine That Bird in the Preakness

By Chad Millman
ESPN The Magazine

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Nobody knows nothin'. What else can you say when a 50-1 shot wins the Derby (technically Mine That Bird was a 50.6-1 shot, according to horse racing genius Joe Drape at the New York Times ). Not a single expert considered any horse outside of the top contenders—I Want Revenge before he was pulled, Dunkirk, Pioneer of the Nile and Friesan Fire—as anything other than gatefillers, like no name actors taking a seat when Leo and Denzel need a bathroom break at the Oscars. Turns out, no ...

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