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Mike Sprowl surveyed the placid lunchtime scene in downtown Louisville just two days before the Kentucky Derby. Perhaps the threat of rain held down the turnout, he ventured. "Or it could be the economy,'' the longtime Louisville For more than a century, Americans have been annually treated to one of the most bizarre and deranged sporting events ever devised. The Derby is a full-on freak show, encased in a bubble of ersatz southern elegance. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — I Want Revenge is out of the Kentucky Derby, the first morning-line favorite to scratch the day of the race. The 3-year-old colt was scratched Saturday morning after trainer Jeff Mullins discovered a hot spot on the