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Alive and kicking

By Jeremy Plonk
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Call the racing industry whatever you want, but please stop using the "D" word: dead. Last Wednesday, 44,907 people showed up at Del Mar for opening day, more than came to see Cigar attempt to break Citation's all-time record for consecutive wins back in 1996. It was the largest crowd in track history, a track that seems today only to be maligned for its artificial surface from outside critics, but somehow $18.5 million swam its way into the wagering pools for the first Saturday of the summer s ...

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