Kerry Smith

They had raised him-and now they were raising the roof. "I think he's number 12," Codee Guffey was saying. "I think that's him?!" If he wasn't sure, if in fact he was nearly incredulous, it was not because he had got the number or the silks wrong. Of course he knew the horse perfectly well, muddied as he was, with that white patch on his forehead. It was just that Raise Cain (Violence) was suddenly putting it all together in pretty unrecognizable fashion, relative to five previous starts that had...