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Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Hernandez got his start with no-rules Louisiana 'bush' races
A loud banging on the window woke Brian Hernandez Jr. He was 7-years-old. He'd been sleeping in his dad's pickup truck on the backside of Evangeline Downs, a one-mile oval track outside Lafayette, Louisiana. A member of the ambulance crew had come to get the jockey's kid. His dad had...
05-20
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