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» _ Post Positions Big Role LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Post position sometimes plays an important part in the outcome of a race. A speed horse breaking from an inside post may have a decided edge on his rivals while -an outside post could be distinctly disadvantageous to the same horse. It, didnt bother Clyde Van Dusen in the-1929 running of the Kentucky [Derby, however, H. P. Gardners gelding breaking from the number 20 post, reached the front before going a half mile and never was headed thereafter to win by two lengths.
