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Music about horse leading a race at the end (6)

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I believe the answer is:

reggae

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'music' is the definition.
(reggae is a kind of music)

'about horse leading a race at the end' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'horse' becomes 'egg' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'leading' says to take the initial letters (the leading letter of the word).
The first letters of 'race at end' is 'rae'.
'egg' going within 'rae' is 'REGGAE'.

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(Other definitions for reggae that I've seen before include "Music style from Jamaica" , "Type of West Indian music" , "Type of music developed in Jamaica in the 1960s" , "Bob Marley's music" , "Jamaican music style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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