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Shades of gray rare among Kentucky Derby favorites, winners
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STEPHEN WHYNO, AP Sports Writer
April 27, 2021
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1of6FILE - Jockey Luis Saez rides Essential Quality to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile horse race at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., in this Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, file photo. Essential Quality is expected to be the first grey horse favored to win the Kentucky Derby in 25 years.Michael Conroy/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6FILE - Kentucky Derby entrant Tapit, with exercise rider Jon Ferriday up, works out along the backstretch at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., in this April 29, 2004, file photo. Only eight greys have won the past 90 runnings of the Kentucky Derby horse race. According to historians and experts, there are just fewer of them in the thoroughbred population compared to more traditional chestnut, bay, brown and black horses. But with light grey Tapit siring Essential Quality and others, horses of that color could be making a comeback at the elite level of racing.TIMOTHY D. EASLEY/APShow MoreShow Less
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