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Countdown to the Derby – Part 2
Anyone who has been part of the 125,000 race goers that descend on the Epsom Downs every year will know the magic of the meet and it’s feature race The Derby. The race is always run at a cracking pace and this year promises to be no different with the going predicted to be on the fast side of good.
May’s Derby Trials did not provide punters with pointers as to the likely winner with no real stand-out horses coming to the fore. 
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Countdown to the Derby – Part 1
Well as the flat season gets underway and we look forward to the greatest race in the calendar, The Derby, it did seem to be all about the impressive Frankel with odds as short as 6/4 but his trainer Henry Cecil has ruled him out for The Derby stating, ”We feel it is better to forget about an attempt at the Derby as he would really have to run in the Dante before Epsom and that comes too soon after Newmarket.
So what of the other contenders …
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