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Topic: Horse racing

Jockey Javier Castellano rides Mage #8 to a win in the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 06, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

NYT's unsettling horse-racing exposé

Gabriella Ferrigine

Author and former jockey Dick Francis (Rui Vieira - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries

Zac Bissonnette

Businessman with Coin Bank (Getty Images)

Billionaires use hobbies for write-offs

Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference with other Senate Republicans at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2020. (ROD LAMKEY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Mitch pushed tax break for horse racers

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"Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race" by Lara Prior-Palmer (Catapult/Salon)

The unlikely winner of the toughest race

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Wayne Pacelle - The Dodo

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Beer and loathing at Preakness

Daniel B. Roberts

A row of electric power poles snapped along Floyd Street at Central Avenue in front of Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, June 22, 2011 after an apparent tornado moved through the area. At least five barns were damaged and horses were running loose Wednesday at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, after a powerful storm that spawned tornadoes blew through Louisville. (AP Photo/Garry Jones) (AP)

Bruce Schreiner

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Exercise rider James Slater takes Kentucky Derby entrant Animal Kingdom for a workout at Churchill Downs Friday, May 6, 2011, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin) (AP)

Associated Press

Exercise rider James Slater takes Kentucky Derby entrant Animal Kingdom for a workout at Churchill Downs Friday, May 6, 2011, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

Horses run amok at Iowa parade; 1 killed

Associated Press

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Injured Eskendereya to miss the Derby

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Kentucky Derby

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Off-track betting

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