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“I came to America…to take a horse to the Derby”: For Samraat’s exercise rider, a dream comes true

Listening to Rodney Paine talk about why he emigrated from Australia to the United States, you might be forgiven for at first regarding him as just a touch naïve. “The Kentucky Derby always intrigued me,” he said, sitting in the jockeys’ room at Aqueduct last weekend.  “I thought it would be neat to take a…

April 30, 2014 in Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby 2014.

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