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how is it that they’re all here on time? How that so many variables commingle at this minute of this day?
Intricate threads lead to this place, this moment.
Tb the second, a cluster of gaily dressed jockeys emerges as one from a striped tent staked into place nearby.
They approach their horses with apparent calm, collective coolness communicating confidence. After brief consultation with their teams, the riders are simultaneously boosted 5 feet high into the postage stamp saddles and the horses prance down a ribbon of green.
They separate at a canter to warm the muscles, collecting again minutes later. “Form a line,” says the blue-blazered man with the red flag. “Turn, walk, walk, walk, easy, whoa, whoa, whoa. OK and .... go!”
The red flag drops. The horses leap forward as one. The riders ease out their reins.
Away they plunge. Running. Jumping. Racing with what seems like reckless abandon but, upon inspection, appears more unbridled passion about a sport with its feet in the 18th century but its hands in the 21st
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