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    <title>Lines in the Sand</title>
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    <description>Lines in the Sand by HorseRaceInsider.com contributing writer, Bill Christine</description>
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    <dc:creator>Bill Christine</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright 2011</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>2011-04-24T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
   
    

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      <title>Jess Jackson Was Racing&#8217;s Quick Fix</title>
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 <![CDATA[ In the movie &quot;The Graduate,&quot; someone says to Benjamin, the character played by Dustin Hoffman: &quot;Ben, I want to say one word to you. Just one word.&quot; &quot;Yes, sir,&quot; Benjamin says.]]>
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<![CDATA[ In the movie &quot;The Graduate,&quot; someone says to Benjamin, the character played by Dustin Hoffman: &quot;Ben, I want to say one word to you. Just one word.&quot; &quot;Yes, sir,&quot; Benjamin says.]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-04-24T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Inscrutable</title>
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 <![CDATA[For this Kentucky Derby, we&apos;ll need tea leaves. Do they still sell Ouija boards? I looked up swamis in the Yellow Pages, and there were no listings. Ms. Kratchnut, go out and get me a crystal ball. A good one. Anything that petty cash can pay for. They should have run this Derby on April 1&#45;&#45;April Fool&apos;s Day&#45;&#45;instead of May 7. Mike Battaglia, who makes the morning line at Churchill Downs, would make all 20 horses 50&#45;1 if he could &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Inscrutable</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[For this Kentucky Derby, we&apos;ll need tea leaves. Do they still sell Ouija boards? I looked up swamis in the Yellow Pages, and there were no listings. Ms. Kratchnut, go out and get me a crystal ball. A good one. Anything that petty cash can pay for. They should have run this Derby on April 1&#45;&#45;April Fool&apos;s Day&#45;&#45;instead of May 7. Mike Battaglia, who makes the morning line at Churchill Downs, would make all 20 horses 50&#45;1 if he could &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Inscrutable</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-04-17T07:40:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Quick, Run the Race</title>
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 <![CDATA[Flies are dropping like horses at Santa Anita. It&apos;s a good thing they ran the Santa Anita Derby on the day they did. If they had run it any later, the way horses were defecting they might have wound up with a two&#45;horse match race. Those covering the race couldn&apos;t write their advance stories fast enough, to account for all the contingencies. They had one finger on &quot;send&quot; and another finger on &quot;delete.&quot; Jon White, the morning&#45;linemaker at Santa Anita, &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Quick, Run the Race</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[Flies are dropping like horses at Santa Anita. It&apos;s a good thing they ran the Santa Anita Derby on the day they did. If they had run it any later, the way horses were defecting they might have wound up with a two&#45;horse match race. Those covering the race couldn&apos;t write their advance stories fast enough, to account for all the contingencies. They had one finger on &quot;send&quot; and another finger on &quot;delete.&quot; Jon White, the morning&#45;linemaker at Santa Anita, &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Quick, Run the Race</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-04-10T10:40:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Beware of the DMB Horse</title>
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 <![CDATA[My first DMB horse, as best as I can recall, was Prince Thou Art in 1975. DMB is shorthand for Derby Must Bet&#45;&#45;a horse you feel compelled to play in the Kentucky Derby&#45;&#45;not because he&apos;s the best horse, or even the favorite, but a horse who has a good chance, may have been overlooked, and is someone you&apos;ve been following for so long that you&apos;d flagellate yourself if he happened to win. DMB is only half of the acronym. In &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Beware of the DMB Horse</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[My first DMB horse, as best as I can recall, was Prince Thou Art in 1975. DMB is shorthand for Derby Must Bet&#45;&#45;a horse you feel compelled to play in the Kentucky Derby&#45;&#45;not because he&apos;s the best horse, or even the favorite, but a horse who has a good chance, may have been overlooked, and is someone you&apos;ve been following for so long that you&apos;d flagellate yourself if he happened to win. DMB is only half of the acronym. In &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Beware of the DMB Horse</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-04-08T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A Country :) Again</title>
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 <![CDATA[Bring back Horatio Alger to write the story. Hire Frank Capra to do the movie. Use Winston Churchill as the narrator. He could start off by saying, &quot;There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.&quot; In the desert hard by the Persian Gulf, the first horse across the line was Japanese, the second horse to the line was also Japanese. For the first time, Japan owned the richest horse race &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>A Country :) Again</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[Bring back Horatio Alger to write the story. Hire Frank Capra to do the movie. Use Winston Churchill as the narrator. He could start off by saying, &quot;There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.&quot; In the desert hard by the Persian Gulf, the first horse across the line was Japanese, the second horse to the line was also Japanese. For the first time, Japan owned the richest horse race &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>A Country :) Again</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-03-27T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A Fine Racing Bio, Bar None</title>
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 <![CDATA[I don&apos;t know how well Chris Koby knows his way around a 3&#45;to&#45;1 manhattan, or whether I could drink at the Amber Bistro, come back six months later and have him say, &quot;Same way?&quot; but I do know his fingerprints are all over &quot;John Henry: The Steel Driving Racehorse,&quot; and what&apos;s a fine filmmaker like this doing in a job like that? First time out of the box, well under 30, Koby has artfully reminded us who John Henry was &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>A Fine Racing Bio, Bar None</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[I don&apos;t know how well Chris Koby knows his way around a 3&#45;to&#45;1 manhattan, or whether I could drink at the Amber Bistro, come back six months later and have him say, &quot;Same way?&quot; but I do know his fingerprints are all over &quot;John Henry: The Steel Driving Racehorse,&quot; and what&apos;s a fine filmmaker like this doing in a job like that? First time out of the box, well under 30, Koby has artfully reminded us who John Henry was &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>A Fine Racing Bio, Bar None</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-03-20T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Too Good for the Derby</title>
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 <![CDATA[Myung Kwon Cho usually doesn&apos;t run a horse this good in the Kentucky Derby. When Cho brings a horse to Louisville, he prefers that they be a 65&#45;1 shot that he claimed off Wayne Lukas for a ham sandwich; or a hopeless 109&#45;1 shot who&apos;s lost all 15 of his races. Premier Pegasus, Cho&apos;s current Derby candidate, has a profile that&apos;s better than John Barrymore&apos;s. Premier Pegasus won at first asking, last summer at Del Mar, won two more, finished &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Too Good for the Derby</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[Myung Kwon Cho usually doesn&apos;t run a horse this good in the Kentucky Derby. When Cho brings a horse to Louisville, he prefers that they be a 65&#45;1 shot that he claimed off Wayne Lukas for a ham sandwich; or a hopeless 109&#45;1 shot who&apos;s lost all 15 of his races. Premier Pegasus, Cho&apos;s current Derby candidate, has a profile that&apos;s better than John Barrymore&apos;s. Premier Pegasus won at first asking, last summer at Del Mar, won two more, finished &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Too Good for the Derby</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-03-13T10:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>When a Steward Needs a Friend</title>
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 <![CDATA[Since Solomon, the Magi and Benjamin Disraeli had other plans, it fell to Kim Sawyer, Scott Chaney and Tom Ward to decide whether Game On Dude or Setsuko would win the 74th running of the Santa Anita Handicap. Mere mortals, they. A fly on the wall in the stewards&apos; stand would have been privy to an interesting 12&#45;minute discussion, as they determined who did what to whom down on the bridle path. It&apos;s a good thing stewards come in odd &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>When a Steward Needs a Friend</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[Since Solomon, the Magi and Benjamin Disraeli had other plans, it fell to Kim Sawyer, Scott Chaney and Tom Ward to decide whether Game On Dude or Setsuko would win the 74th running of the Santa Anita Handicap. Mere mortals, they. A fly on the wall in the stewards&apos; stand would have been privy to an interesting 12&#45;minute discussion, as they determined who did what to whom down on the bridle path. It&apos;s a good thing stewards come in odd &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>When a Steward Needs a Friend</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-03-06T13:34:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Some Early Ultimatums</title>
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 <![CDATA[They&apos;re running the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May this year, which means that it&apos;s 10 weeks off. But it&apos;s not too early to throw out 10 of the contenders, and I&apos;m also going to throw them in: Uncle Mo Why he will win: He loves Churchill Downs. Won the Breeders&apos; Cup Juvenile there in a laugher. Why he won&apos;t: OK, Street Sense shattered the bugaboo, but the fact remains that juvenile champions usually don&apos;t win the Derby. &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Some Early Ultimatums</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[They&apos;re running the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May this year, which means that it&apos;s 10 weeks off. But it&apos;s not too early to throw out 10 of the contenders, and I&apos;m also going to throw them in: Uncle Mo Why he will win: He loves Churchill Downs. Won the Breeders&apos; Cup Juvenile there in a laugher. Why he won&apos;t: OK, Street Sense shattered the bugaboo, but the fact remains that juvenile champions usually don&apos;t win the Derby. &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Some Early Ultimatums</a>]]>
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 <dc:date>2011-02-27T09:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Bay Meadows, Revisited</title>
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 <![CDATA[You don&apos;t go to Redwood City, 25 miles down the peninsula from San Francisco, for the waters, or a tattoo. (Although there was a lovely epidermal adornment establishment within walking distance of our hotel. Part of the sign on the front door said, &quot;No Children.&quot; A card in the window said: HIPPIES USE BACKDOOR &gt;&gt;&gt;). I hadn&apos;t had a haircut in three weeks, yet I felt that I still would have been turned away had I gone to the back &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Bay Meadows, Revisited</a>]]>
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<![CDATA[You don&apos;t go to Redwood City, 25 miles down the peninsula from San Francisco, for the waters, or a tattoo. (Although there was a lovely epidermal adornment establishment within walking distance of our hotel. Part of the sign on the front door said, &quot;No Children.&quot; A card in the window said: HIPPIES USE BACKDOOR &gt;&gt;&gt;). I hadn&apos;t had a haircut in three weeks, yet I felt that I still would have been turned away had I gone to the back &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Lines-in-the-Sand'>Bay Meadows, Revisited</a>]]>
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