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Casual fans of the Kentucky Derby, mint juleps in hand, can’t be expected to extend their curiosity much beyond the woozy singing of “My Old Kentucky Home” and the chaotic two minutes of racing that follow, unless a Triple Crown winner seems a serious possibility. One is unlikely to hear any mention of another, equally famous Derby (pronounced “Darby”) taking place a month later at Epsom Downs in England. Unlike its Kentucky counterpart, the Epsom Derby, the subject of an intricately plotted and stylistically burnished crime caper by the English writer D. J. Taylor, is run on turf, over uneven terrain. While these differences may seem slight, the cultural gulf separating the two derbies might as well divide baseball from cricket. Read Full Story
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