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A Kentucky Derby article explains why racehorses aren't getting faster: Unlike humans, horses are such superb athletes that training doesn't help them.
The Rangeland Derby, as it is known, races four-horse wagons like those used to bring food out to the cowboy on the range during roundup time.
The real concern is that because Microsoft's victory in an earlier derby happens to have given it control over a particularly strategic part of the industry--because it supplies operating systems--it is in a position to squeeze out rival suppliers of other software.
It looks ultra-American, like demolition derby with a higher purpose.)
At 30-1, he was the longest long shot to win the Derby since 1940 and was only the second horse to win from the 16 th post in this century.