Cherie DeVoe

So it's really important that when you can, you're not losing any, you know, any distance in the race, any ground, as we call it.

So... And the other thing I had mentioned to Jose is just...

In his previous start in the Louisiana Derby, he dove down to the rail because he thought that's where the horse was going to do his best running.

But you really can't do that in the field of the Kentucky Derby.

There's too much traffic.

Horses are going to close you off.

And so I just said, just swing as wide as you can so you get a clear shot at it.

And if you could have drawn it up on a playbook, then that would be exactly how Jose enacted it.

Not much.

All I could see, like, Churchill's a bit tricky to watch races, especially in a big crowd.

So you're watching on the TV, and most of the race he wasn't even on the screen, and neither was his little chicklet.

So I was watching a lot of the complexity of the first part of the race, and I was hoping Jose was a man with a plan, because he was so far out of it.

And they were, to be fair, they were going really fast in front of him.

But I picked him up...

like when they came off the stretch and i could see him and that's when my um wonderfully viral video of me cheering him on started and um when they came by where i was standing he was just getting to renegade and then um you know then again they still had quite a lot of the race um left to run um so then i had to watch it on the big screen i couldn't believe it what do you see when you see yourself in that moment

It just, it felt like it was all the years of hard work.

You know, I put a lot of, I put all my life in this industry up to this point, you know, from when I started 22 years ago.

And it just seemed, it felt like it was a culmination of all of that.

And I was just so proud of Golden Tempo and just so elated for Jose.

And then I think myself was the last thought that was, is in my mind about that moment.