Alan Sherman looks at you and smiles. While he is talking with you, he doesn’t miss a single detail around him, especially about California Chrome. You don’t realize how observant he is because he is a master at multitasking. If anyone from the Sherman Racing Stables has a need, he notices it immediately. What is interesting to watch is the nonverbal communication between everyone at the barn. They are so dialed into each other that often they do not need to talk. There is a look.

Colt Cunningham has a perfect name and a perfect smile. And he is smiling a lot this weekend. He has the kind of smile where his eyes slowly close and stay shut while his face brightens into a great big open grin. It’s as if he is capturing the images in front of him to look at them later. He had a pretty rough start in life. He was born with a congenital heart disease called pulmonary stenosis that causes abnormal development of the fetal heart. Basically, what it means is that his heart has issues with the blood flow from his heart to the pulmonary artery.