I guess the article says it all. The horse people down here all grew up that way. Wasnt really "amazing", or "crazy" or different to us. Heck I never went to school football games, dances or anything like that, we had horses to run and that was alot more fun than any of those things. My mother was the first woman in La. to have her QH trainers license, and I was raised at the tracks. The movie Caseys Shadow? about friends of ours. Randy Romeo was my first crush,,,he was such a looker.
Acadiana Downs was one of the more popular bush tracks, and Calvin rode quite a few there. Quarter horses, TB's all the same to the jocks.