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Preakness is a tradition in turmoil

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 14, 2009

BALTIMORE -- If you show up at Pimlico Race Course this Saturday, you'll probably think Maryland racing is a wonderfully thriving enterprise. The track will be jammed with about 100,000 fans, on hand for nine stakes races that are capped off by the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. Same thing if you showed up at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. The crowd two weeks ago numbered more than 153,000 to see Mine That Bird go from last to first in a sho ...

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