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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES HARD TIMES: A horse makes its way around the Pimlico track ringed by rust, chipped paint and a broken fence just days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, the lone highlight remaining for Maryland's thoroughbred racing industry.
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Jerry Lewis reacts to the final donations tally at the 2008 Labor Day muscular dystrophy telethon. This year's telethon will be his last as host. (Associated Press)
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Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom with David Nava aboard gets a morning workout at the Fair Hill Training Center on Monday, May 16, 2011 in Fair Hill, Md. Animal Kingdom and his trainer Graham Motion are preparing for the 136th Preakness Stakes race Saturday in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Jim Dietz)
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Chipped paint is a common sight five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, as the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Teller windows are closed and the grounds are empty with no races on this day, five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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The Preakness winner's circle is seen through a piece of chipped tinted window five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, as the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A bird stands atop a rusty, paint-chipped monitor stand five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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The starting gate sits aside five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, as the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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The grand stand is seen five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rust , chipped paint and a broken fence are seen as a rider makes his way along the track five days before the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes, as the grounds at the Pimlico Race Course are still in need of repair in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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In this photo taken April 18, 2011, in Springfield, Ill., a construction worker begins work on building a new residential home. Builders broke ground on more new homes last month, giving the weak housing market a slight boost at the start of the spring buying season (Associated Press)
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University of Maryland student Jake Lee (left) and Monica Corrado, the owner of Simply Being Well, serve fresh raw milk at a rally held by Grassfed on the Hill in Washington on May 16, 2011. The rally was held to protest the sting operation conducted by the FDA against Pennsylvania dairy farmer Dan Allgyer. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Liz Reitzig of Bowie (far left) and Karine Bouis-Towe of Takoma Park prepare to drink fresh milk from Morgan the cow at a rally at Upper Senate Park in the District on Monday. The organization Grassfed on the Hill held the rally to support Pennsylvania dairy farmer Dan Allgyer. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Political commentator Glenn Beck appears on stage in Anchorage, Alaska Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. The event featuring the former Alaska Gov. and the conservative commentator Saturday night brought out two very different crowds. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHIINGTON TIMES @Subhead.frcd.22: "Everybody wants to win the Derby, just so many things have to line up. For us, I just feel like it was fate - it was our turn." @PullQuoteSig:-Animal Kingdom trainer Graham Motion
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS The "Aliados" dance crew competes at the Mesquit Rodeo club in Matehuala, Mexico, where the craze for long-toed boots began.
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Members of the "Parranderos" dance crew wait for a competition to begin at the Mesquit Rodeo nightclub. Dance crews were the first to embrace the pointy-toed boots, which many decorate glitteringly.
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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux )
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One of the two flight recorders from Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, is shown in Le Bourget, France, near Paris, on Thursday, May 12, 2011. French investigators said Monday they have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders, which were located by underwater robots and hoisted up from a depth of 13,200 feet under the sea. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
