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How much does the winning
jockey earn at the Kentucky Derby?
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How come they only race one lap? Don't they have distance races?
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I dunno, I thought about it too. But I think horse racing on a track has been pretty much always one lap.
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Each track is actually a different size, and most need the horses to go a little over a lap in a 1 1/4-mile race, including Churchill. It's a one-mile track so they do a lap and a quarter. That's why they move the starting gate around between races using a tractor ... the finish line always stays put, but the starting gate has to go in different places. Belmont Park is a 1 1/2-mile oval, so the Belmont Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile race, is exactly one lap.
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