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This Memorial Day weekend, two days of racing will give some 400,000 customers a chance to bet as much as $21 million on the horses and hunches they like.

At Garden State Park, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia,' Palestinian and Olympia are expected to head the field of three-year-olds in the $50,000-added-Jersey Stakes. For Californians, Hollywood Park will feature the $25,000-added Will Rogers Handicap, in which Star Fiddle and Pedigree are entered. Boston, Wilmington, Detroit, Chicago, and scores of lesser U.S. tracks will also...

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