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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Kentucky Derby begins with 20 horses stampeding three-eighths of a mile before squeezing through the first turn. No matter how crazy Saturday's race starts, there's little chance the finish will be as wild as it was 50 years ago.
"I don't think there was ever that good a race," 94-year-old trainer John Nerud recalled Thursday. "I've never seen that in my lifetime."See the full content of this document
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'57 Derby Dream Turned Into a Nightmare
The 1957 Kentucky Derby is remembered as horse racing's version of baseball's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," the dramatics triggered by the late Bill Shoemaker, considered the sport's greatest jockey. He was aboard Gallant Man and gaining on ...
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