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FOR THE RECORD - May 10, 2009

Bill Plaschke column: Bill Plaschke’s Sports column May 3 on surprise Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird said “a fourth-place finish in the Sunland Derby somehow gave him enough winnings to qualify for the Derby.” In fact, Kentucky Derby qualifying is based on earnings only from graded stakes races; Sunland is ungraded. Most of Mine That Bird’s Derby-qualifying earnings were in Canada.

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