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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Most influential horses of the decade]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My run on ESPN.com began in 2000 with the opening of the new millennium and it's hard to believe there have been 10 years of bylines.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 17, 2009 07:01:23 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Compulsive competition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if Tiger Woods ever set foot at a racetrack in America, or has dabbled online with an exacta or two from Calder.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 14:04:22 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Springboard Mile scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With an achievable distance of one mile and a rich, $200,000 purse, the newly renamed Springboard Mile certainly could serve its purpose of springboarding a star 3-year-old to the Triple Crown trail next spring.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 14:27:02 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Money and the message]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You want to cut 30 percent out of your post-race testing budget? Run 30 percent fewer races and make sure the 70 percent you keep are held to the highest standards possible.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 03, 2009 11:20:46 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Three to be thankful for]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving means much more than getting out a nail punch from the tool shed and expanding your leather belt by a notch. It's a time to reflect and appreciate as much as anything; and those of us who work in, and enjoy, the horse racing industry truly have been blessed in 2009.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 23, 2009 09:26:39 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cardinal scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nine fillies and mares provide the roll call for this 1 1/8 miles turf test, which carries Grade 3 status and a $100,000 purse.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 12:58:03 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Change hits the Derby trail]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For me, the annual end of the Breeders' Cup season marks the beginning of the Triple Crown pursuit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 06:28:27 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Cup memories begin and end with Z]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After 48 hours of reflection, I tried to put the monstrous mare's victory into personal perspective.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 10, 2009 05:41:45 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Who's in your saddle?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not old enough or dumb enough to use words like "ever," but jockeys will play a bigger role in Friday and Saturday's Breeders' Cup World Championships than perhaps any major racing stage of the past few decades.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 02, 2009 11:24:21 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: The Ambassadors of Dirt]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While it might not sound like much of an upper-level cabinet post, the Ambassadors of Dirt at the 2009 Breeders' Cup World Championships will be the most highly scrutinized politicos in this dog-and-pony show.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 28, 2009 08:12:26 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Study shows no turf edge on synthetics]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's time to separate the facts and the friction.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 21, 2009 09:14:29 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[QEII Challenge Cup scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Week-long rains and cool temperatures will certainly play a factor in the turf course condition for this Grade 1 $500,000 event.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 15, 2009 16:08:35 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's the surface, stupid]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If everyone is going to get upset over how skewed last year's results were in a one-year sample, then we should never wish for another Breeders' Cup on a fast dirt track again either.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 14, 2009 05:27:28 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spinster scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's no shortage of horsepower at Keeneland for Sunday's time-honored Spinster, which attracted 11 distaffers in search of a half-million dollar purse.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 09, 2009 11:30:09 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: 24 races, 24 more cases]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This weekend features no less than 24 races to watch, from all corners of America.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 08, 2009 04:56:34 PDT EST</pubDate>
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