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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 4.17 21 Every December, the Wynn Las Vegas releases its Kentucky Derby Future Odds. Last year, five horses had odds of 25-1 or under...five months out from the first Saturday in May. When we asked a local second-grader which of those horses would win the 2016 Derby based on name alone, she correctly picked Nyquist. For this year's Derby, we decided to ask another kid the same question. Of the horses with odds of 25-1 or under — Practical Joke (25-1), Mo Town (18-1), Mastery (12-1, since injured), McCraken (10-1) and Classic Empire (7-1) — who will win the 2017 Run for the Roses? "Classic Empire, because it's like the Crystal Empire from My Little Pony!" — Leona, local four-year-old "I think I'm a 12-year-old in a 30-year-old's body that I'm trying to make 16 again," Gary Stinson says. His office at the Kentucky Derby Festival headquarters in Old Louisville supports his analysis: Stinson, KDF's digital media manager, has a table with a Lego top his father made him, two enormous hands on his desk cupping Smarties candies, a Buddha head turned hat/sunglasses rack, big silver letters hanging on the wall that vertically spell out Stinson's initials — GAS — and three, wait, four, no, five screens within immediate view, counting the flatscreen he uses as a photo album and the tablet he has mounted on the wall near his desk, not counting the tablet he has stashed in his briefcase. "I like to be tech-forward," Stinson says. That's how he ended up live-streaming the ride he took during KDF's annual hot-air balloon race last year, despite his fear of flying. "I had to talk myself into it over the course of a year, and finally, when I talked myself into it, I had to convince some other people, 'Oh, I need to be in the balloon; I need to be covering this from Periscope,'" Stinson says. "And then I got to go in it, and that was probably one of the highlights of anything I've ever done at the festival." — Dylon Jones SPACES Photo by Mickie Winters QUESTION FOR A KID