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Early 100th birthday present: She makes it to the Derby

This Tuesday, April 29, 2008 picture shows Kentucky Derby hopeful Recapturetheglory grazing outside his stable at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Ky.

Dorothy Davis hoped she’d make it to the Kentucky Derby before she turned 100. She did — by a month. “It’s even more beautiful than I imagined,” she said today, from a balcony that overlooked the famed twin spires. “All the colors. I couldn’t have visualized it.” There were 157,770 people at Churchill Downs, give or take a few folks in their finery, and it’s safe to say none was more excited than…

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