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Welcome to Trendlines, your weekly installment of what’s trending up and what’s trending down in sports.
This week we’re talking about the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, the world’s most famous horse race.
Journalism – yes, that is actually a horse’s name – is the favorite to win, but the truth is that we really don’t know which horse is going to finish first.
We do know which humans are going to win on Saturday and that starts us with our trending up.
Bookmakers have a field day when it comes to Churchill Downs. More than $200 million was gambled on just the main event last year. When you…