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By Betsy Parker
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
The only sport where a five foot man can stand 10 feet tall, horse racing dons a mantle of mystery: The flat track with its cigar-smoke-filled betting parlors and blinking pari-mutuel board differs, admittedly, from the steeplechase sport with horses that fly (literally) at rural, grassy venues.
But both feature the same game: fast horses and highstakes competition. They can be a little disconcerting to the firsttimer. This isn’t a pro baseball game — liveried ushers showing you to your seat where you settle in and watch the action.
In horse racing, the fans are the action.
Clutch your program close: it might as well be the rosetta stone. Within its hastily printed pages is enough information about the horses to make a good guess (by statistical data, by name, by connections) about your bets, whether at a friendly tailgate party pool or at the oldfashioned bookmakers’ board set up paddockside.
Bet if you must — a little side wager spices up the dav —
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