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1 With the approaching Belmont on June 9 there is a prodigious feeling among the railbirds that the 34-year-old drought will be ended by a horse with the melodious moniker of “I’ll Have Another.”

2 Napravnik held an easygoing pose as she danced the filly to the racetrack while railbirds shouted encouragement.

3 At the races there are railbirds who always wager on gray horses.

4 My editor, Jim—both a Jersey guy and a railbird—asked.

5 I'm a railbird, all right, but I know where th' dough is.

6 The stable lads and railbirds who were on kept their heads closed and saved their nickels for the day of Caspar's victory.

7 And a little track in Nebraska that railbirds mostly ignore in normal times is suddenly getting outsize attention.

8 He learned so much about the horses that he could never win anything on them when he played in the ten-cent books made by the railbirds.

9 Some railbird satirist near the wire bawled "Go!" as the unspeakable riot swept past in dust-clouds.

10 Electoral railbirds, steeped in the historical stats, point to the many bad signs for Democrats.

11 The ensemble includes four degenerate railbirds who pool their resources to bet on long shots.

12 The bottom sum accepted by the railbird books was a dime.

13 Seabiscuit skipped back to the barn, “obviously,” said one railbird, “in a marvelous humor.”

14 That was what the railbirds at Belmont expected from Blame.

15 Aqueduct racetrack near JFK Airport told railbirds to stay home but was still planning to run a full card of horse races Friday afternoon.

16 Perhaps only the most dedicated railbirds knew Leon’s name at post time.

17 In horse racing, a railbird is a track regular who hangs on the rail to watch the horses from up close to the action.

18 He grew up on a local dairy farm and became a Grants Pass Downs railbird long before he and his late brother, Dane, turned a pushcart coffee stand in town into Dutch Bros.

19 The trainers', railbirds', and stable-boys' money that went in forced the old skate's price down to 75 to 1 at post time.

20 In the course of a mini-monologue, Zito can sound like a railbird who was one unlucky break from cashing a big ticket.

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