When she was 13, she asked a friend of her father’s, who owned thoroughbreds, to teach her to gallop. By 16, she was galloping horses for $12 a ride in the mornings and playing high school volleyball and softball in the afternoons. Scriver keeps up a steady diet of galloping horses in the morning. “She can go as far as she wants.”Grants Pass Downs has long been Boersma’s refuge from the world. He followed his father here as a boy, prowling the grandstand for winning tickets mistakenly thrown away, then using the proceeds to pick winners.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2021 06:56 UTC