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Hot pace, deep and talented 20-horse field make for unpredictable Kentucky Derby
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Bode Baffert has never been so nervous about a race. The 7-year-old son of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is the namesake of the 138th Kentucky Derby morning-line favorite, Bodemeister.
• "Bode feels a lot of pressure right now," Baffert said. "I said, 'Isn't it exciting, Bodemeister's going to go to the Derby?' And he said, 'Well, what if he loses?'
• "You never know, but at least you have a good horse named after you. He didn't know what to think of it."
• Bodemeister, at 4-1 odds, is among a 20-horse field that's so stacked that unbeaten Gemologist, trained by Todd Pletcher, is no better than third choice on the morning line behind Union Rags.
• "History tells us that you can't throw anyone out," said Pletcher, a former Lukas assistant who is also starting El Padrino. "There have been some winners the past few years that have been way down everybody's depth charts."
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Syrian activists say explosion in Aleppo car wash kills at least 5
• BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian activists say an explosion in a car wash in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least five people.
• Aleppo activist Mohammed Saeed says the car wash is owned by a man known to be part of pro-government militias known as the shabiha. He said the blast killed six.
• The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the death toll for the Saturday attack was at least five.
• Bomb attacks inside Syria's largest cities have become frequent as the country's uprising against President Bashar Assad grows increasingly militarized. Many in the opposition have taken up arms since protesters first took to the street in March 2011.
• The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have been killed.
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