Winning Colors ends in dead-heat

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When they met in an allowance race four days before the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Diva Express held off I’m a Looker by a diminishing head.

This time, however, not even the photo-finish camera could split the 4-year-old fillies when a dead-heat for win was declared Saturday in the 13th running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Winning Colors.

Diva Express put away the odds-on favorite, Enchanting Lady, in the six-furlong race, but in the final yards, it was I’m a Looker and jockey Robby Albarado who appeared to have a slight edge after launching a bold rally.

“Robby got ahead of me, but then my filly put her head down,” said Julien Leparoux, who rode Diva Express for owner John Oxley and trainer Mark …

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