1. Winning the Kentucky Derby

I think this is appealing to me for three main reasons. The first reason is that I’m from a part of the country (Chester County, Pennsylvania) where a lot of people breed and compete horses. Our newspapers basically drop everything else to cover stories about local horses like Smarty Jones making it to the Kentucky Derby and when the horses get hurt or die it’s like the end of the world. I saw grown men weep when they put Barbaro down. The second reason is that I think Seabiscuit (the movie and the actual…

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