Best_Hunch_Bet_Ever

Hoyden on the Road
Derby Week-Louisville, KY

Yesterday while making our annual pigrimage to one of my favorite places on the planet (aka Churchill Downs) we, being the master handicappers we are, played a hunch. Rayona, the number 2 horse in the 7th race, came through for us. The hunch? One only book nerds (or believers in kismet) could appreciate. Rayona is one of the protaganists in Michael Dorris' Yellow Raft in Blue Water. Michael Dorris was a Louisville native who went to St. Xavier High School. Dorris was actually Alumni of the Year in 1990 when my brother graduated. The name of the race? The St X Alumni Association.

Rayona won driving, by two lengths.