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The $500,000 Penn Mile Stakes, a mile turf test for 3-year-old males, features a rematch between Grade 2 American Turf Stakes winner Global View and runner-up Storming Inti. Global View leads the field with a perfect two-for-two record in stakes on the grass in his brief career while Storming Inti will try to avenge his Derby day loss.

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Sheepshead Bay a Wide-Open Race

Caroline Thomas (center) wins the 2013 Lake Placid at Saratoga. (Photo by Eclipse Sportswire)

The Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes brings together a field of 10 fillies and mares at Belmont Park, including three who are entered to run only if the race is switched from the turf to the main track.

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Chrome’s Competition: Search for Preakness Longshot

Dynamic Impact, above (outside, blue/yellow silks) winning the Illinois Derby, has a chance to upset California Chrome in the Preakness Stakes. (Four-Footed Fotos)

If you’ve been a fan of California Chrome for the past month or more, then you received a nice reward on the first Saturday in May for your faith.

A $7 payoff for a $2 bet isn’t a king’s ransom, but was a highly appropriate amount of profit on a horse who was the most talented and accomplished runner in the field.

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Tip of the Week: Repeating History

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There are not many races in which the favorite wins and the exacta pays $340.

Then again, the Kentucky Derby is not exactly the Friday feature at Beulah Downs.

For the second year in a row, the combination of a victorious favorite and a 30-1 runner-up led to the kind of exacta payoff that rolls around only on the first Saturday.

A year ago, it was Orb, an inflated 5-1 favorite, and 37-1 shot Golden Soul running 1-2 for a huge $981.60 exacta.

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Turf vs Tech Handicapping Challenge for May 2

The Turf vs Tech Handicapping Challenge is a public tournament featuring some of the best handicappers from the world of Thoroughbred racing taking on some of the best and brightest from the tech world. Many of racing's new fans are building their own companies or working on the next great mobile app and we thought it would be great to see what happens when they take on established handicappers in some of America's best races.

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