Bill Finley has the stats: On the rail, on the turf, away from Churchill, at Churchill. "When it comes to winning percentage, Borel is no better at Churchill than he is overall. Throughout his career, he has more than 4,700 victories and his winning rate is 15 percent. At Churchill, through May 8, he has won 986 races for an identical winning percentage of 15 percent."

"The Louisiana-raised, late-blooming Mr. Borel is a charming quote dispenser, and last year he found himself celebrated, sometimes a bit patronizingly, as a supernatural horse whisperer. But he's not a shaman any more than Peyton Manning is. He's a champion and a pop star in a desperate but irresistible sport that most of us can't be bothered to watch for more five or six minutes a year."

"[Bush] tracks, which once dotted the countryside from Louisiana to Oklahoma, are mostly gone now -- victims of changing tastes and fears of lawsuits and the law itself."