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Kentucky Derby Strategy: Post Position, Pace, and Winning Tips

The Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs is the most strategically complex betting race in American horse racing. Twenty horses break from the gate simultaneously at Churchill Downs in Louisville onto a one-and-a-quarter-mile dirt oval — creating the most compressed and chaotic first quarter-mile in American racing — and the outcome is shaped before a single …

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