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Who's in your saddle?

By Jeremy Plonk
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, November 2, 2009

I'm not old enough or dumb enough to use words like "ever," but jockeys will play a bigger role in Friday and Saturday's Breeders' Cup World Championships than perhaps any major racing stage we've witnessed in at least the past few decades. The voodoo surrounding synthetic surfaces has rendered an already criticized cerebral vocation into complete confusion. "There's a reason why jockeys wear size 3-1/2 hats," the late, great trainer Charlie Whittingham was famous for saying. Imagine how the Ba ...

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