Tim Layden: Even grand Kentucky Derby can’t mask horse racing’s sad state
April 30th, 2010 | by |LOUISVILLE -- Horse racing awakens this weekend at Churchill Downs, as it does every year on the first weekend in May. Friday afternoon more than 100,000 people will stuff the track for the running of the Kentucky Oaks for three-year-old fillies and an undercard of races that includes 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. On Saturday that number will swell to more than 150,000 for the ...
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