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The crowd kept quiet as the long line of thoroughbreds came out of the gate at Churchill Downs and moved slowly up the midway in the rain. Then they saw Earle Sande on Gallant Fox, seventh in line, and a few people shouted; Sande tipped his cap. Tannery, the horse that all the Southern sports were betting on, was 13th, and the band played "My Old Kentucky Home." Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to...
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