I was a regular trainer.
I had some good horses.
But primarily they were at the middle tracks but not the big
steaks.
Never in my life thought I would have a divorce.
We welcome you to the 148th
Kentucky Derby.
Don't walk over. We're on the track and I pointed to
the grandstand of an acid and I said you see all those people.
He said that's amazing. I said that's usually us watching.
I said they're watching us just having a horse good enough, to
be in the Derby's, an honor itself.
You know it where you finish is irrelevant.
It was like the most humbling feeling in the world.
All this hard work,
all the tragedy we've been through
it. Finally paid off.
It was 1:00 in the morning when I got the phone call.
Lindsey,
you need to get the barn. Now,
about a mile and a half up Russell Cave Road, you can see
the flames.
I think the first three or four horses were gone immediately on
both sides.
We really thought we'd lost them all.
We grab a horse and run them down. Turn them loose
and we'd run back to the barn. Well we thought we'd save four
or five horses
we had say 13.
For all the horrific - of the fire and the Flames.
When the sun came up,
it was so much worse.
I mean,
there's not a person in this world should see what we saw
that day. Nobody should have to see that.
That's when it really hit me how bad things were and I was
done.
I was going to get everybody through it, but I was done.
But the love is what got me back.
Love from the horse people
from total strangers.
Phone calls from Big trainers.
Don't go out like that. We'll send you horses will send you
clients, whatever it takes
when the first horse walked on the track, The Filling got
better.
Well, the new white barn, with the Red Roof, you see, is
the new barn from where the old barn burned.
I decided
I was going to build the barn back but not the same size,
the other, half the land. There's never going to be
anything on it. It's like our Hallowed Ground.
It's a place to go and remember, so it's never
forgotten.
Rapes. Right?
Absolutely unbelievable. That was a Big Thrill ever had in my
life standing there. Watching his horse by said Finish Line.
We lost a lot of fire
but Richie, he is this miracle.
I don't know the answers to why things happen. We're not
supposed to.
We have seen the worst and now he's seen the best.
Richie, you've always been number one. He will always be
our Phoenix. He rose From the Ashes Flames coming out behind
him.