Few U. S. racing fans know that England's famed Derby, prototype of all U. S. derbies, is run on grass instead of dirt, over a U-shaped track instead of an oval, up-&-down-hill instead of on the flat and over a distance of i| miles instead of i|. But every U. S. racing fan knows that the English Derby is the most famed horse race in the world, is the basis for one of the three Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes held each year and that some $4,000,000 of U. S. money is gambled annually on the...
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