My heart is broken, in the last few strides.

swedrock

Well, I'm rooting for Street Sense to win today at the Preakness. It has been so long since there was a contender for the Triple Crown. Street Sense before the Derby:

If you go out to the "backside" really early in the morning, before sunrise, you can sit down at the grill and eat with the trainers, and warmers,and often the owners. And after that, the horses are brought out; just at sunrise, for a warmup, and a run for time on a lap, and to get experience for jockey and horse. In this early morning, in the Kentucky spring, you can often see the breath of the horses, and the heat from their bodies, among the greens of spring, and the blossoms of the tulips and daffodils. But this year it has been way too warm and was way too early, so when the frost came in late March we lost a lot of blooms and leaves. Yesterday it was 87 degrees in the afternoon.

Young man and horse....