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It’s the greatest competition this side of the greatest pipe band competition – it’s time for pipes|drums’ annual Pick the Six, where our wise and canny readers get the opportunity to put their, um, wisdom and canniness to work by predicting the top six overall finishers in Grade 1 at
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