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At Derby betting window, it's Nehro

Kentucky Derby entrant Nehro waits for a bath

Photo credit: AP | Kentucky Derby entrant Nehro waits for a bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. (May 6, 2011)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.

Amid the semi-controlled chaos of 19 thoroughbreds thundering toward the first turn, Saturday's Kentucky Derby will take shape like an amoeba devouring itself. Traffic problems will eliminate many in the quarter-mile rodeo drive before a screaming mob of 150,000 or so. In the next seven-eighths of a mile, others will fade because they lack speed and/or stamina. At the eighth...

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