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- Gary West
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the modern Kentucky Derby, post position No. 1 is a banana peel. With 20 horses in the field, there's a crush in the five-sixteenths-of-a-mile run to the first turn, an avalanche of traffic, with everybody trying to secure position and avoid a wide journey. And then there's the little problem of the rail. For the Derby, the starting gate sits up in the chute at the top of the Churchill Downs stretch, and from No.