For most of the past 15 years, Lakeside’s Torrie Needham has spent the Kentucky Derby escorting one of the racehorses to the gate. An injury kept Needham from making the trip to Louisville last year, but this year she was back at Churchill Downs and took fourth-place Kentucky Derby finisher Instilled Regard to the gate prior to the Run for the Roses.
“It was quite an experience,” Needham said. “There was so much rain on Saturday and I hadn’t ridden in so long that I’m pretty sore, but I felt good.”
Source: East County Californian
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