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Last weekend's Preakness Stakes winner and Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome got some good news today: The horse's nasal strip, previously forbidden at the Belmont, has been approved. Not that there was any doubt. [ESPN] Read more
California Chrome and jockey Victor Espinoza won the Preakness Stakes today in a time of 1:54.84.
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Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, has his pick for the Kentucky Derby. He likes Chitu as the best value—20-1 right now—but he has some other recommendations for exotics that you should check out on his blog. Levitt also swung by Deadspin to chat horse racing yesterday, which you can read here.
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