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It's all good

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 3, 2009

Now, that's horse racing: Big-time, perfectly bred thoroughbreds have just brought the small to middle-sized track style of running, done oftentimes by claiming horses, to the nation's attention. It puts the ping back in handicapping. Every once in a while you find a horse that couldn't lose if it stopped to shake the mud off its ears, and a horse that couldn't run anything but second if it forgot to break, in a short field full of "others," and still the exacta pays more than five to one, mo ...

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