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APR 2017

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84 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 4.17 BY Bill Doolittle PHOTO BY Barbara Livingston It takes tons of racing luck to claim the pot of gold at the end of the Derby rainbow. On a pretty morning in California, Jerry Moss, the prominent racehorse owner and co-founder of A&M; Records, drives across L.A. to visit with his stars. Not the famous singers with whom he is most often associated but the fleet-footed, four-legged variety that are stabled with trainer John Shirreffs at Santa Anita Park. "I love to go to the barn in the morning," says Moss, as he looks in on the horses. "It's such a relaxing thing to see these beautiful animals — to try to get a little closer to them. When it's sunny out and you can see the gleam in their coats, it's quite a feeling." As the morning work winds down — the horses have been to the track for exercise and then cooled down, bathed and brushed — Moss asks his trainer to bring two particular horses out into the stable yard to pose for a picture. Moss wants Shirreffs to hold both steeds, and he's got a shady spot picked out near the barn to capture the image. Of course, none of this is unusual. Happens every day at every track in America: a smitten horse owner wanting a photo of his precious babies, posed with the wise trainer. Except these aren't just any two horses. ey're both three-year-old colts aiming to run in the 2017 Kentucky Derby. And you'll excuse Moss for being excit- ed with not one but TWO possible Derby horses. And, yes, it's only early March, still nine weeks to the first Saturday in May, but Moss is living a Derby dream, following a horse — or two — along the trail of important prep races The Race t0 the greatest Race

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