In Kentucky

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Five horses, flying down the home stretch in the Kentucky Derby, flashed across the finish line almost neck to neck. Two of these five might have won if the race had been shorter. Two others might have won if the race had been longer. But the horse that did win was produced from behind at just the moment to capture the prize—which, after all, is exactly what the others were trying to do at that particular second.

The Winner. Black Gold, so-called Pride of the West,...

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